From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: iking@killthewabbit.org (iking@killthewabbit.org) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:13:18 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped In-Reply-To: <1402856379.23321.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> References: <1402856379.23321.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: <21ae9091-baed-493a-b84f-ec96efc66955.maildroid@localhost> Small correction: not a Star, an Alto. :-) Sent from my android device. -----Original Message----- From: Norman Wilson To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org Sent: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:19 AM Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped Jay Forrester, who invented core memory, first described it in a lab notebook 65 years ago today. (Thanks to the Living Computer Museum, through whose Twitter feed I learned this tidbit. It's a place--the real museum, not just the Twitter feed--many on this list might enjoy: among their aged-but-working computers are a Xerox Star and a PDP-7.) Norman Wilson Toronto ON _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: