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Remembering Magnetic Memories and the Apollo AGC

11 pointsby 2earthtoday at 7:22 AM2 commentsview on HN

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bradley13today at 7:58 AM

I find it remarkable that magnetic core memory was used in (semi-)modern fighter aircraft. Their systems have to pass extreme vibration testing, and you would think that core memory would be very susceptible to vibration.

Core memory was in use a lot longer than people think. Some fighters being produced as recently as the 1980s still used it.

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