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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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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Check this out. Very cool.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOtf85sHRlg

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Though not a fan of his reasoning to have it in silicone oil. The computers back then also didn't do that, and they had rougher measuring tooling.
He just wanted a oil-submerged thingy anyway.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, absolutely. Just a fun and cool project.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I knew this was gonna be polymatt! What a great vid.

TL;DW: He makes a memory core from "scratch"