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I was hoping to find an updated version of this, but I guess computers haven’t gotten any Moore compact since (lemmy.world)

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A picture similar to this one was on one of my high school text books. Inside the cover was a description of it as magnetic core computer memory. For quite a long time I thought this is what computer chips looked like. The only issue was I was in high school in the 80s, long after such memory was used. Maybe the text book was 15 years old, I don't know.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 11 points 23 hours ago

First computer company I worked for was still using it in the early 80s. Slow, but it retained state after a power failure.