Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-10-14, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>> I doubt that either process is in widespread usage any longer as
>> most manufacturers no incorporate a way to update the firmware of a
>> device
>
> Magnetic core technology died out long before that, due to
> inability to build machines that simulated armies of ladies
> with sewing needles!

I interviewed at a company that was still making core memory in 1989.

--
Grant