File:Electronic Memory.jpg

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This vintage photo portrays the previous paradigm shift in electronic memory… This is a 64 bit (not KB, MB or GB) memory chip from the mid 60s on top of the industry standard at the time – core memory (hand woven iron rings that store a 1 or a 0 magnetically).

One of the original IBM engineers, who first put memory chips into a computer, sent me this print. The chip is a SP95 Phase 2 Buffer Memory (The Phase 1 chip was 16 bits), produced at IBM Essex Junction, VT. SP95 was the first commercial application of IC memories in a computer (the IBM S-360, model 95 scientific computer that shipped to NASA in 1966).

The IC grabbed the proverbial brass ring, and had its day in the sun.
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Source 64-bit Chip
Author Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by jurvetson at https://www.flickr.com/photos/44124348109@N01/6562865. It was reviewed on 29 February 2008 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

29 February 2008

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Licensing

w:en:Creative Commons
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This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
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  • to remix – to adapt the work
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  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
Category:CC-BY-2.0#Electronic%20Memory.jpg
This image was originally posted to Flickr by jurvetson at https://www.flickr.com/photos/44124348109@N01/6562865. It was reviewed on 29 February 2008 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

29 February 2008

Category:Flickr images reviewed by FlickreviewR#Electronic%20Memory.jpg Category:Computer memory Category:Core memory Category:Photographs by Steve Jurvetson not own work Category:Files uploaded from Flickr by Jacopo Werther
Category:CC-BY-2.0 Category:Computer memory Category:Core memory Category:Files uploaded from Flickr by Jacopo Werther Category:Flickr images reviewed by FlickreviewR Category:Photographs by Steve Jurvetson not own work