Hackaday

The ARCTURUS Computer Developed At Sydney University In The 1960s

State of Electronics] have released their latest video about ARCTURUS, the 14th video in their series The Computer History of ...
EDN

Magnetic ferrite core memory is patented, October 21, 1949

On this day in tech history, An Wang filed a patent which would become the basis of magnetic core memory. After receiving his PhD in applied physics, Wang began working at the Harvard Computation ...
Hackaday

Core rope memory

If you want read-only memory today, you might be tempted to use flash memory or, if you want old-school, maybe an EPROM. But there was a time when that wasn’t feasible. [Igor Brichkov] shows us how to ...
The Verge

NASA used ‘LOL memory’ in the Apollo missions

NASA used radiation-resistant core rope memory, which consisted of fermite rings woven together with rope, for its Apollo space missions. NASA used radiation-resistant core rope memory, which ...