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Re: Re: Summary A
- To: T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl, 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: KellySt@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 00:59:08 -0500
Timothy van der Linden
> 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?)
No, but it was the memory of 30-40 years ago when the computers were built.
> >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?
They upgraded them to 256 chip ram. I think?
Kelly