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October 1998, Week 5

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Subject:
Core memory (was: John Glenn's flight tomorrow)
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Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]>
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Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:16:25 -0800
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Walter writes:
> As I recall, those computers still use magnetic core memory.  That
> allows the astronauts to power off some of the computers during
> certain phases of flight without losing the contents of memory.

I recently saw an HP 9100 (with core memory) that still has a program
that was loaded about 10 years ago!

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
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