Tracy Johnson writes -
>
[...]
>(do any of you remember core?)  This memory was made with 3 wires being
>passed through a ferro-magnetic ring.                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]

   I think I still have a sample out in the garage with my IBM green
   card and flowchart template.  The three wires were for read, write
   and sense.

   Also, anybody who has developed on Unix for more than a half-hour
   has seen the infamous "Bus error.  Core dumped" message.  I guess
   it could be updated to "Instruction error.  Silicon dumped."

   cv

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