And forget everything the next morning. No, I’m not partying nor drinking, nor even hanging out with people. I’m looking at my math homework now, which I was struggling to finish last night. Right in the middle of a math problem, here’s what I have written, in pencil and scrawled in strange shapes, as if these words were numbers or mathematical symbols.
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IBM’s site has a blurb about the IBM 2361 core storage unit.
In each 2361, almost 20 million ferrite cores — tiny doughnut-shaped objects, each about the size of a pinhead — were strung in two-wire networks and packaged, with associated circuitry, into a cabinet only five by [two and a half] feet and less than six feet tall. The first memory was installed for use in a complex of five powerful IBM 7094 Model II data processing systems. Four additional memories were added to the NASA Real Time Computer Complex (RTCC).
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