[TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped

Norman Wilson norman at oclsc.org
Mon Jun 16 04:19:36 AEST 2014


Jay Forrester, who invented core memory, first described it in
a lab notebook 65 years ago today.

(Thanks to the Living Computer Museum, through whose Twitter
feed I learned this tidbit.  It's a place--the real museum,
not just the Twitter feed--many on this list might enjoy:
among their aged-but-working computers are a Xerox Star and
a PDP-7.)

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON



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