[Brek] wanted to store his 64 bits in style and that means hand-wired core memory. OK, we’re pretty sure that the solution came first, and then [Brek] found a fitting problem that could be ...

The reason they have that name is that magnetic core memory was the primary storage for computers back in the old days and many of us still refer to a computer’s main memory as “core.” ...

T o most people, core memories are those of happy times. But to me, besides happy moments, a lot of my core memories are also those of either grammar "eureka" moments, aka those wonderful moments ...