The first computer I ever worked on had 8KB of core memory. It was an old Digital Equipment Corporation pdp-8/e. I loved that machine and its open face tale drives and teletype with paper tape punch and reader and card reader.
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And rope memory!
Is that... 32 bytes of memory? Wow, I didn't know they also came in rope form factor as well.
Some cores appear to touch other neighboring cores. Won't that cause issues to the core's magnetic properties?
Oh, I see what you mean by
No, each wire that goes through the rope, weaving through or around each of the ferrite rings, represents one or multiple bytes.
Looks like there are 16 wires for each core in this module?