CORE ROPE MEMORY MAKES ONE OF THE ODDEST LED FLASHERS WE’VE EVER SEEN
If you’ve heard of core rope memory, it will probably be in the context of vintage computing equipment such as Apollo-era NASA hardware. A string of magnetic cores and sense wires form a simple ROM arrangement, which though long-ago-superceded by semiconductor memory remains possible to recreate by the experimenter. It’s a path [Nicola Cimmino] has […]
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