On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, David Andrews <d...@lists.duda.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:23 -0400, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >> Ever since I started doing Capacity Planning, in 1981, it was called >> 'Storage'. > > Hell, I was still calling it "core" 'til 1991 - when Ehrman chided me > for it. > > (Like Aldo Cella, I am no slave to fashion.)
Actually, core was non-volatile, so you could read your core storage after a power outage. Not with the S370 transistors. The Challenger space shuttle computers had core and the memory was read after the crash. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
