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| Keywords: Project Whirlwind - core memory, circa 1951 - detail 2-1.JPG Project Whirlwind - core memory circa 1951 developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory Massachusetts USA Museum sign describes capacity as 2Kb; I do not know if this means kilobytes or kilobits and word size is not describe Load rate was 40 000 instructions / second In Charles River Museum of Industry Waltham Massachusetts USA on loan from the MIT Museum <br /> hey man art says a single plane held 32 x 32 1024 cores ie bits thatd req ab 16 planes to hold 2k bytes pic looks like having just that many ; Own 2009-03-28 Daderot Public domain Project Whirlwind | ||||
