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echo: tech
to: Roy J. Tellason
from: Paul Rogers
date: 2003-11-03 18:05:00
subject: I must be getting old

PR> Maybe someday I can bore you with a description of the S360/91 32K
 PR> water-cooled memory modules, back in the days when it was an
 PR> acknowledged "super computer".

 RJT> What did they make them out of,  discrete components?

600ns & 900ns CORE memory, little ferrite donuts.  It takes
real energy to flip those magnetic domains, but at least it
was legitimate to refer to those devices as "memory".  The
SLT chips of the late 60's were roughly equivalent to SSI.

 RJT> Something else?  I'm not real knowledgable about that
 RJT> stuff,  not having worked directly with it at all.

 PR> ... Nobody expects a fannish imposition!
 RJT> Uh oh.  A fan too?  :-)

... NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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