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The first computer I ever worked on had 8KB of core memory. It was an old Digital Equipment Corporation pdp-8/e. I loved that machine and its open face tale drives and teletype with paper tape punch and reader and card reader.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The memory in the two Voyager spacecraft - still in operation more than 45 years after launch, now more than 4 times farther from our Sun than Pluto's mean orbit - is core. Poke around in https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's awesome. It's lasted longer than modern flash does.