Karsten Schmidt<p>Thanks to a book recommendation by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bert_hubert</span></a></span> [1], I went on a tangent learning more about the absolutely fascinating history and workings of core memory (and core rope memory, its read-only version). Some of this also very interesting for <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/PermaComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PermaComputing</span></a> and giving me ideas for future art projects...</p><p>Apollo Core Rope Memory (restoration and read out of 50 year old memory from the Apollo Guidance Computer)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p>Core Memory Explained and Demonstrated<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwsInQLmjXc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=AwsInQLmjX</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p>[1] <a href="https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/114760790691965256" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/1</span><span class="invisible">14760790691965256</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/CoreMemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoreMemory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Apollo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apollo</span></a></p>