[TUHS] core

Nemo Nusquam cym224 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 12:00:33 AEST 2018


On 06/15/18 21:08, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 10:21:44 -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 7:19 AM, A. P. Garcia <a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> jay forrester first described an invention called core memory in a lab
>>> notebook 69 years ago today.
>>>
>> ???Be careful -- Forrester named it and put it into an array and build a
>> random access memory with it, but An Wang invented and patented basic
>> technology we now call 'core' in 1955  2,708,722
>> <https://patents.google.com/patent/US2708722A/en>  (calling it `dynamic
>> memory')???.
>
> Tha patent may date from 1955,

The patent issued in 1955 but the priority date is listed as 1949-10-21.

N.



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