An Wang invention prior to founding Wang another ghost company.
The 20 story office towers were sold for $400k.
Dr Wang was a leader in putting Chinese on a keyboard and processing
documents optically.

Favorite add was the attack helicopter outside an office building.
And then the minicomputer era was over.

Larry D



On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Dennis Fritz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Yep.  Core memory.  An electrical pulse from the X direction crossed with
> a pulse from the Y direction at the right time, and the magnetic coil would
> hold magnetism.  That could be read digitally as a "1".  I guess no charge
> on the magnet was a "0".  Same principle as all the semiconductor storage
> today, or even lighting the pixels of LCD and LED displays.  Last time I
> saw some of this was at the NAVSEA Crane electronics repair facility, where
> perhaps they still have to maintain some of this electronics equipment.
>  Hopefully, that is on destroyers have now been sold/given 3-4 times to
> smaller/newer countries around the world that want to start a Navy.  Old
> electronics sometimes never goes away - it just comes back for repair.
>
> Denny Fritz
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Creswick <[log in to unmask]>
> To: TechNet <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thu, May 23, 2013 1:14 pm
> Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: Pat Goodyear "Whatzit" Photos
>
>
> I should have added - "Dusty" core memory.
> Pat - Is core memory used instead of rad hard solid state, or is this
> omething you had laying around?
> I remember pulling some out of some 70's vintage avionics, and early 80's
> cash register', but never attempted to do anything with them.  Can I sell
> hem to the nuke industry and "win the lottery"?
> Steve C
> -----Original Message-----
> rom: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Gregory
> ent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 1:02 PM
> o: [log in to unmask]
> ubject: [TN] NTC: Pat Goodyear "Whatzit" Photos
> Hey All,
>
> Pat Goodyear is probably unsubscribed now  :o(  but he sent me some photos
> n Tuesday to post on my page. From his email:
>
> Steve,
> I am sending a couple of jpgs of XXXX, can you post them with what-is-it
> itles?  See if we can stir up some old memories....
>
> So I have posted them. Anybody have any ideas of what this is?
>
> http://stevezeva.homestead.com/Whatzit1.JPG
>
> http://stevezeva.homestead.com/Whatzit2.JPG
>
> http://stevezeva.homestead.com/Whatzit3.JPG
>
> He let me know what it is. I'll keep that to myself for a while to see if
> nybody really knows....
>
> Steve
>
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