Thursday, April 17, 2014

Core memory, Old School style

And nobody does Old School stylin' like Tacitus.  Looks like that stuff is even magnetic.

Srlsy, what's the information density on that?  I mean, it's readable by the human eyeball ...

2 comments:

  1. Dave HApril 17, 2014 at 9:01 AM

    That's just the label. The data itself is encoded in the orientation of crystal structures within in the metal, and can be read with an electrostatic probe.

    You didn't really think a plastic disk with the word "Windows" screen printed on it was worth a hundred bucks, did you? Okay, bad example...

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  2. TinCan AssassinApril 17, 2014 at 9:31 AM

    No, no, no! I said burn a DISC! Not the %^&* Archive!

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