On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 09:34 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
> Semiconductor memory was introduced to the market as somewhat cheaper
> and more reliable than ferrite-core memory (although the greater
> reliability did not really obtain originally)

Indeed.  I recall turning on ECC corrected-bit reporting on our /145
running VS1, and it kept the console annoyingly busy.  This was circa
1974.

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