Jay Forrester holding core memory plane

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Date
1954
Credit Line
Courtesy of the MIT Museum
Copyright Owner
© Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Keywords
Inventions; Storage; Electrical; mechanical
Object ID
102680506

Jay Forrester, an MIT researcher and manager, devised the crucial “coincident current” method of controlling how information is read and written in core memory.