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BeralShakUr

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    BeralShakUr reacted to Sauron in Age old storage help me identify it?   
    Afaik this is not storage, it's RAM. Magnetic core memory to be exact.
     
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    BeralShakUr reacted to AbydosOne in Age old storage help me identify it?   
    It's Magnetic-core Memory. Certainly old school and very neat. What I would give for a IBM grandfather to learn from!
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    BeralShakUr reacted to SupaKomputa in Age old storage help me identify it?   
    Wow, i never seen anything like it. 
    It belongs in the museum.
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    BeralShakUr got a reaction from AbydosOne in Age old storage help me identify it?   
    So I was talking to my grandfather today about how technology has evolved immensely quick and we got to the topic of data storage, whereupon he said he's got an age old storage device from his days working at IBM (he retired in 92, and worked there for ages). That could give you an idea and maybe a rough timeframe.
    So he pulled out that device and I've obviously never seen anything like it. I'm asking you to help piece together what is what for example the chips on the outsides as he's got some memory problems (pun intended) and couldn't explain everything to me, but would like to know himself.
    Also he said he thinks that each of the crossings in the red wired part might be 1bit but wasn't sure anymore.
     
    In any case thank you guys ahead of time for helping us out.





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