OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 59134

core memory

Meanings (ES + gloss)
memoria nuclearia
A type of non-volatile random-access rewritable electronic memory using ferrite cores to magnetically store binary digits (bits).
Wilkes, on his visit to America in summer and fall 1950 had witnessed the core memory being implemented on the Whirlwind at MIT—and as in the case of seeing the control matrix in t…
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