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| From | Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.editors |
| Subject | Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors |
| Date | 2025-05-16 21:29 +1000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10077j8$3o72v$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 14/05/2025 10:54 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote: > Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote: >> On 11/02/2025 12:00 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:47:39 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote: >>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-09 00:35: >>>> >>>>> So you never used core memory. >>>> >>>> Correct. But core memory is not intended as *persistent* memory, >>>> even when it can be used this way. >>> >>> It was indeed regularly used that way. Consider that, on machines >>> from the core memory era, there was no ?boot ROM?. The first-stage >>> bootloader was typically around a dozen machine instructions or so, >>> which had to be hand- entered using front-panel switches. >> >> I remember having to do that on a PDP-8 (was it??) in 1982-3. > > That seems rather late! For computing, yes, that might seem rather late ... but for its purpose (Training us in how an Aust Army Direction Finding system worked) it was quite reasonable. I don't know what the actual DF system used. -- Daniel70
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Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-14 21:34 +1000
Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-05-14 12:54 +0000
Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-16 21:29 +1000
Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-05-16 14:13 +0000
Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-17 21:00 +1000
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