Who wants to help read a Saturn V core stack?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10 Nov 2008 at 16:05, Eric Smith wrote:

> Not really.  You'd have thousands of very fine wires, all looking 
> identical, that pass through some cores and go around others (on average 
> perhaps 33 through each core), and packed incredibly densely.  Even with 
> very high resolution scans from multiple angles I don't think you could 
> expect to extract the data visually.

Okay, I see.  Regardless--if it's that type of memory, then failure 
to read it electrically could use a visual method as a fallback.  
After all, these things were assembled (and one would expect, 
inspected) manually.

Did some of the S/360 machines use ferrite ROM for their control 
stores?  360/40 perhaps?  I believe some also used capacitive ROM 
(360/30?).

Cheers,
Chuck