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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
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And today it is $.000000009 / bit.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 11:11:19AM -0400, John P. Linderman wrote:
> Excerpt from the article Clem pointed to:
> 
> The company was called Wang Laboratories and it specialised in magnetic
> memories. He used his contacts to sell magnetic cores which he built and
> sold for $4 each.
> 
> 
> 4 bucks a bit!
> 
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 7:19 AM, A. P. Garcia <a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> jay forrester first described an invention called core memory in a lab
> >> notebook 69 years ago today.
> >>
> > ???Be careful -- Forrester named it and put it into an array and build a
> > random access memory with it, but An Wang invented and patented basic
> > technology we now call 'core' in 1955  2,708,722
> > <https://patents.google.com/patent/US2708722A/en>  (calling it `dynamic
> > memory')???.   As I understand it (I'm old, but not that old so I can not
> > speak from experience, as I was a youngling when this patent came about),
> > Wang thought Forrester's use of his idea was great, but Wang's patent was
> > the broader one.
> >
> > There is an interesting history of Wang and his various fights at: An
> > Wang - The Man Who Might Have Invented The Personal Computer
> > <http://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/550-an-wang-wang-laboratories.html>
> >
> > ???
> >

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