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Re: Re: Summary A
- To: KellySt@aol.com, kgstar@most.magec.com, stevev@efn.org, jim@bogie2.bio.purdue.edu, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl, hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu, rddesign@wolfenet.com, David@InterWorld.com, lparker@destin.gulfnet.com, bmansur@oc.edu
- Subject: Re: Re: Summary A
- From: T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 18:47:17 +0100
To Kelly,
>> Huh, even 15 years ago 1 Mb of memory would be payable
>> for such a big organization.
>
>Not for a radiation hardened, custom military computer. The memory wasn't in
>chips. It was in magnetic cores (little dounuts of feric somthing or other)
>with wires runing threw it.
Yes, I've seen these magnetic memories (at least you can see the bits there)
But were that the mem-chips of 15 years ago? (Am I that old already?)
>The guys who programed them HATED them!
yeah, 256 kb is not too much.
But are todays Shuttles still having the same amount of memory?
Tim