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Originally Posted by jgray
I actually have a large card of core memory that a friend gave me many years ago. I had it mounted in a silver frame, with a reflective backing behind the core memory. Most people just think it is a piece of modern art.
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Can you post a picture of that? It'd bring back memories.
Also, when I was in college, the only computer on the campus was this honking huge mainframe in Administration they used for registration and to schedule classes. But, my senior year, they installed a mainframe in the Life Sciences building and began courses in Computer Science.
Anyway, some of the guys in my fraternity took the course. And one night they told us they had programmed the computer to play (are you ready for this?) Tic Tac Toe. You talk about a dorm full of astonished nerds. We could not believe it.
So we walked over to Life Sciences and they stopped the computer which was batch processing (remember that?) and ran their program. Once it was set up, one of the guys entered an 'X' which was displayed on this 12 inch black and white screen. And the computer immediately entered an 'O'. The whole room gasped. I thought I was seeing the ultimate in machines.