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Keywords: Project Whirlwind - core memory, circa 1951 - general view.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 Own 2009-03-28 Daderot Public domain Project Whirlwind |