plated wire memory

wrcooke at wrcooke.net wrcooke at wrcooke.net
Sun Oct 20 11:34:43 CDT 2019


> On October 20, 2019 at 9:35 AM dwight via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> I was just listening to a video on the Voyager space craft. It used an interesting type of memory, called magnetic wire memory. There is only a little bit of information of it on the web. It is clever in that has a non-destructive read. I just wondered if any one else was familiar with this type of memory.Dwight


There is some interesting information, but not a lot of technical details, in the Computers in Spaceflight book from NASA
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19880069935

Will



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