On Sun, 16 Sep 2018, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/232927847019
https://secretsofcoldwarradar.omeka.net/exhibits/show/cold-war-radar-technology/item/4
can someone identify exactly what this box was called, when it was deployed,
and what training manual they are referring to?
In the T.O. (http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/sage/3-32-0_Central_Computer_System_Vol1_Feb59.pdf),
that cabinet is called "core memory 1", or 256² ferrite core array". We just
called it "Big Mem". Here's a picture of the cabinet from McChord's
SAGE:
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/SAGE/BigMem.jpg
I'll have to look through my references to find out when it was deployed.
That training manual doesn't seem to be on Bitsavers. :-) It would be nice
to find it.
we have a couple
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102633198
and they keep getting mis-identified.
I have one, as well:
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/SAGE/Coreplane-1L.jpg
Mike Loewen mloe...@cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
