Your Own Core Rope Memory - If you want read-only memory today, you might be tempted to use flash memory or, i... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/14/your-own-core-rope-memory/ #retrocomputing #coreropememory #corememory #magnetics #memory

64 bytes, more or less Something different for #MacroMonday, as you carry billions or trillions of bytes in your pockets, entire libraries and music catalogues... #CoreMemory, 1 core=1 bit. (DEC PDP-11 H214 8kx19 detail) #photography #history #technology #IT #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

A Nibble Of Core Memory, In An SAO - Core memory, magnetised memory using tiny magnetic rings suspended on a grid of wi... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/03/a-nibble-of-core-memory-in-an-sao/ #computerhacks #magneticcore #corememory #nibble

Inside a Mystery Aerospace Computer with [Ken Shirriff] - When life hands you a mysterious bit of vintage avionics, your best bet to identif... - https://hackaday.com/2024/06/01/inside-a-mystery-aerospace-computer-with-ken-shirriff/ #retrocomputing #corememory #navigation #signetics #avionics #computer #flight

What’s a Transfluxor? - In the 1967 movie The Graduate, a wise older man gives some advice to the title ch... - https://hackaday.com/2024/03/03/whats-a-transfluxor/ #retrocomputing #transfluxor #corememory #parts #arma

Here is a link (cued to the time where it starts) of the best and most clear explanation of how core memory works. Reading & writing a bit has many steps!

Now I want to know how modern memory works with a similar level of detail.

I always felt there was something poetic about how one must destroy this kind of memory in order to read it. Observation is never passive... to observe a system is to change it... #computer #memory #history #coreMemory #cs

https://youtu.be/AwsInQLmjXc?list=TLPQMTcxMjIwMjPAV2NFeK1Otg&t=160

Saving Apollo by Decoding Core Rope - One of our favorite retro hardware enthusiasts, [CuriousMarc], is back with the ou... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/04/saving-apollo-by-decoding-core-rope/ #apolloguidancecomputer #retrocomputing #coreropememory #corememory #history #agc

GLASNOST is a Computer That Makes Transparency A Priority - We live in a world where most of us take the transistor for granted. Within arm’s ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/17/glasnost-is-a-computer-that-makes-transparency-a-priority/ #computerhacks #corememory #vacuumtube #computer #glasnost #soviet #logic #gate

Supercon 2022: Andy Geppert is Bringing Core Memory Back - Many Hackaday readers will be familiar with the term “core memory”, likely thanks ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/18/supercon-2022-andy-geppert-is-bringing-core-memory-back/ #2022hackadaysupercon #magnetic-corememory #hackadaycolumns #retrocomputing #touchscreen #corememory #ledarray #core64 #cons

VCF East 2023: Andy Geppert Talks Core Memory - Do you know core memory? Our prehistoric predecessors would store data in the magn... - https://hackaday.com/2023/04/20/vcf-east-2023-andy-geppert-talks-core-memory/ #retrocomputing #vcfeast2023 #interviews #corememory