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Vintage Memory
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Handmade Core Memory Prototype
This is a 1960's era handmade core memory. Each of the "cores", which are the tiny beads, were strung on the wires by hand. Notice the size of the beads compared to more modern Dataram core memory shown below.
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dataRAM
This is a dataRAM core memory board. The close-up area shows the wires with and without cores.
Sometimes when core memory is built into a board it can fold open and closed like a book.

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