Artifact Details

Title

Magnetic core memory stack

Catalog Number

102618520

Type

Physical object

Description

Large core stack red and white wires on one side, black and yellow on the other and yellow on the end. Some wires have numbers. This core stack has 35 core planes. It appears that one plane was removed from the stack This implies the stack was used to implement a 36 bit wide memory system. The number of bits in each core plane was not counted, so the capacity or number of words in the stack is not known.

Manufacturer

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

Place Manufactured

ca. 1965

Dimensions

37 x 8 x 9

Category

Memory/core