From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,HTML_MESSAGE,LOTS_OF_MONEY,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id fbdf3aae for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 02:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 4FA609EE17; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:18:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA0EB9EDE5; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:17:57 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b=HP75jZYp; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 81CDD9EDE5; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:17:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-wm0-f54.google.com (mail-wm0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2467C9EDE4 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:17:53 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f54.google.com with SMTP id e16-v6so6104828wmd.0 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 19:17:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=mBt8lc4Puld5vipIGit2u7BlOoq0hE9WxUk7SEYDat0=; b=HP75jZYp8VabQTM/FIoeyuR+OUNWmqP7VvaFLNHmkO0qkRKIIZvhgngywgk7Vb9lUN R+pMVusbgySjFZMM9OL5ZnfCAypN+haxuoeO2x/OIIv2u4v3rzFAyJ3lnw4cAj7IY9VI qBKf/t2lTC7/JzBLTH8dRdvOY88bddiZAGDWiCitvlaF7BHJK6uzfajuc5X63yz/ilPp Vd53qF7RTgY+hBHpr0+EAZKTI58cFRoLrjKpw/nIgLTeb5VAlMkWXs8dSCXk9MAxuamp fzvL+OH72gEUd3Uo7w6S2p7/g2GaW4DiDZ7clLMEnak54Whv+UnBQvE4VNN2SZkNrcaY Qqmg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=mBt8lc4Puld5vipIGit2u7BlOoq0hE9WxUk7SEYDat0=; b=bWgwwOAWVQiePWbUwGchcl9g2YpcuM0IY3H6Hln3eI0gqDfUh4Mo7T7FQ87KI14C3Y 88iTJLVtN7WyvqoJbuWMfAWur+fUbobM0cyHpFqcC61SH5f9BohhSubboXCTnODHjN20 2/MV//wpe+IgllVdsi78B5Hsb5xHaaZTuswn5bIcw5NhNfWiWL6gd+elXXPbREmKtZnj HB/Sx/a4nqfb6P3P62M/TOLs4SICXz1+1W3/AQ3AmO1lZCuUoG85UVjBwjSTLwX4jj44 SxdCIx2v8tK9zolrgIQ3vNKg/J++EGl8N66yVurEmKB66TACsbV+LdfEvF0dSj6xXz76 /BPw== X-Gm-Message-State: APt69E3lmipA6Yr99K9cwbk5LWWWOAktGAwp5/ThWWMh0NbZBiJpjLQB 8MLMjpaDZ4SGQ0w/KOY/ELN7jLwZR5t+NaDE95U= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKJdNRYzbqvn7zk/ThB+D7pPNZYFmoN36Quy16ho4kYSorsvjx5Q0IwtLKDm91XgczMeKOBssL1svZVrf6MP5VY= X-Received: by 2002:a1c:8fd5:: with SMTP id r204-v6mr2991159wmd.77.1529115471708; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 19:17:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:adf:ed0d:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 19:17:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20180616010804.GA28267@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20180616010804.GA28267@eureka.lemis.com> From: "John P. Linderman" Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:17:50 -0400 Message-ID: To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000830644056eb8f0f8" Subject: Re: [TUHS] core X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --000000000000830644056eb8f0f8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Forrester was my freshman adviser. A remarkably nice person. For those of us who weren't going home for Thanksgiving, he invited us to his home. Well above the call of duty. It's my understanding that his patent wasn't anywhere near the biggest moneymaker. A patent for the production of penicillin was, as I understood, the biggie. On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 10:21:44 -0400, Clem Cole 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 > > (calling it `dynamic > > memory')???. > > Tha patent may date from 1955, but by that time it was already in use. > Whirlwind I used it in 1949, and the IBM 704 (1954) used it for main > memory. There are some interesting photos at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory. > > Greg > -- > Sent from my desktop computer. > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program > reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA > --000000000000830644056eb8f0f8 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
For= rester was my freshman adviser. A remarkably nice person. For those of us w= ho weren't going home for Thanksgiving, he invited us to his home. Well= above the call of duty. It's my understanding that his patent wasn'= ;t anywhere near the biggest moneymaker. A patent for the production of pen= icillin was, as I understood, the biggie.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Greg &= #39;groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 10:21:44 -0400= , Clem Cole 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 an= d build a
> random access memory with it, but An Wang invented an= d patented basic
> technology we now call 'core' in 1955=C2=A0 2,708,722
> <https://patents.goog= le.com/patent/US2708722A/en>=C2=A0 (calling it `dynamic
> memory')???.

Tha patent may date from 1955, but by that time it was already in us= e.
Whirlwind I used it in 1949, and the IBM 704 (1954) used it for main
memory.=C2=A0 There are some interesting photos at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_m= emory.

Greg
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