James E. Henderson wrote: >.. > In 1963, when I was sent to St. Paul, Minnesota, for classes in > repairing the military computers we were going to use on board > submarines, I got a tour of the Univac factory there and got to watch > the cores being manufactured. Sometimes those microscopic little ferrite > cores would break. Then the machine had to be unwired part of the way, a > new core inserted and the wiring re-done. Errors were frequent but when > they were done they were sealed up so nobody would have to look at the > core wiring again. It was tedious, painstaking work with constant > testing, work that only human hands could do. That's why memory was > expensive.
I wonder why Minnesota was the location for computer manufacturing. Wasn't Control Data in Minneapolis? And what else? Maybe Cray -- didn't he originate in CDC? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
