x@mit-prep.UUCP (03/14/86)
<2nd hand information - beware of the bull> A friend worked out a way to string cores, and read them, using 2 wires (not 3) per core. I never did understand the magnetics, but perhaps it was inspired by margin tests and error-correcting codes. <end 2nd hand> Both he & I then noticed that we have a very simple way to make 2-wire cores: viz dipping flywire into liquid (...) and letting the droplets dry out at every intersection of 2 wires. I doubt all this would have been practical, but it made some EEs look ill, so I guess it would have been possible. Anybody seen such a scheme? Is it possible? Core is still great if you expect power glitches. x@mit-prep.ai.mit.edu Disclaimer: I am not me. ps: Potter Instrument used to have a name RAM: stood for "random access memory". Did it ever get trademarked? Anyone hear of it before then? -- x@prep.ai.mit.edu (Dean Elsner) Disclaimer: I am not me.