>required extremely careful manufacture, almost always carried

>>58630183
>why was is so hard to automate this?
before they made an efficient process for manufacturing core memory, transistors became widely used

>>58630183
Flexible materials have infinite degrees of freedom.

They did automate it. Apollo spacecraft had rope memory that was knitted by machine that took in punch cards

I still have no clue how core memory functioned.

>>58630289
flipping one of the magnet's fields would cause current to flow in another wire

if one of the cores is already flipped, no current flows

since a read causes a core to flip, you need to re-write the memory after every read

>>58630281

>infinite degrees of freedom

You don't understand what degrees of freedom are. Stop saying terms you don't understand.

>>58630314
>blibby blabby magnets

Just tell me "magic" next time.

>>58630352
bruh just take physics I and II in college

>>58630323
Wires and flexible cables are best modelled as a continuum

>>58630183
This looks more like a toy a kid would make with a science and crafts kit than computing machinery

>>58630458
These things are fucking tiny

>>58630323
he's right though

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>>58630458
>>58630468
relatively speaking, of course

as far as hand-made goes, they're pretty tiny

I've always wanted to DIY core memory, then I think about how much of a bitch it'd be

>>58630205
It was used for 20 years actually