Core memory, magnetized memory using tiny magnetic rings suspended on a grid of wires, is now more than five decades obsolete, yet it exerts a fascination for hardware hackers still. Not least [Andy ...

mainframe ' System / 360 ', which IBM announced in 1964, is the first model to launch a near modern-day computer as a commercial, ' OS general-purpose computer capable of sharing OS, and highly ...

Magnetic core memory turns 60 years old today, and as a tribute [Ben North and Oliver Nash] have created a 32-bit magnetic core memory board for the Arduino. Magnetic core memory was used from the ...

This iteration of Electronic Design: Now and Then was inspired when I was reading "Using Magnetic Cores in Computers" from our archives. This article was originally published in Electronic Design ...