[rescue] Vaxen?

George Adkins george at webbastard.org
Sat Apr 27 12:58:02 CDT 2002


On Saturday 27 April 2002 01:46 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:57:07AM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> > newell at cei.net writes:
> > >Core is still cool, but I'd be surprised if it still offers any useful
> > >advantage (other than non-volatility) over modern semiconductor memory
> > >devices.  'Course I had an idea years ago to build the little rings and
> > >wiring on a chip--why thread wires when you can do lithography, and
> > >integrate the drivers and sense amps onto the same substrate!
> >
> > I still want a cabinet of core with a SCSI interface.
>
> How much core?
>
> I would think that as things go, it would be relatively easy to build, but
> I haven't really done much.

Dave?  Comments?
How much time/money/effort would it take to assemble a rack-full of core 
memory and turn it into a big fat solid-state-storage-device-type system with 
a SCSI port out the back?

George



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