Many Hackaday readers will be familiar with the term “core memory”, likely thanks to its close association with the Apollo Guidance Computer. But knowing that the technology existed at one point and ...

[Andy Geppert] sends in his incredibly clever interactive core memory shield. In a great display of one hacker’s work being the base for another’s, [Andy] started out with [Jussi Kilpelainen]’s core ...

AMD’s 32-core Threadripper 2990WX is the fastest consumer CPU ever sold. And let’s be clear: We’re in full agreement with anyone who said that. But we would also be the first ones to say it has its ...

Photographer Mark Richards explores the beauty and complexity of the earliest computing machines. Manufactured by the Nippon Electric Company (NEC), the drum-based machine was one of the earliest ...

Azalia King was the last holdout preventing the construction of a Micron "megafab." Onondaga County authorities threatened to use eminent domain to take her home away by force. Valar Atomics Says It’s ...

Reason Magazine has a nice review of a book having images from various vintage computers. It is not online yet. Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers is from Chronicle Books up in San ...

“The startup, called Core Memory, has the unusual ambition of producing high-end documentaries along with the typical ‘digital’ products: a YouTube show, a podcast, and a Substack newsletter…Vance’s ...

On this day in tech history, An Wang filed a patent which would become the basis of magnetic core memory. After receiving his PhD in applied physics, Wang began working at the Harvard Computation ...

What are your core memories from childhood? Can you lock in a core memory by choice? What do your core memories say about you? The notion of “core memories” has become well known in popular culture.