For Sale: Soviet Military Ferrite Core Memory Stack Cube and Manual

#1

Post by joshwa » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:29 PM UTC

Re: For Sale: Soviet Military Ferrite Core Memory Stack Cube and Manual

#2

Post by a3voices » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:41 PM UTC

Seems like the kind of thing that you'd keep in your attic forever.

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Post by JonnieCache » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:43 PM UTC

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Post by hcarvalhoalves » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:44 PM UTC

That's crazy, you can see it's handmade. I wonder if it still works?

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Post by colanderman » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:45 PM UTC

That's 4K words; each word seems to be 18 bits (assuming that's what "width" means). That's 9 kB by today's standards.

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Post by feritkan » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:48 PM UTC

So this thing runs in space? They went to space with this?

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Post by unwind » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

colanderman wrote: post #5

That's 4K words ; each word seems to be 18 bits (assuming that's what "width" means). That's 9 kB by today's standards.

Actually traditionally it's 9 KB, or 9 KiB if you're into the modern binary prefixes.

9 kB would be 9,000 bytes, but this seems to be (4,096 * 18) / 8 = 9,216 bytes, which is exactly 9 KB.

Or maybe I'm just a hopeless old f*rt for caring about things like this, and the world needs to get off my lawn.

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Post by Nekorosu » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:51 PM UTC

Absolutely overpriced.

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Post by nsxwolf » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:52 PM UTC

Nekorosu wrote: post #8

Absolutely overpriced.

Overpriced in terms of today's RAM prices (yes!), or overpriced for a Soviet 4K RAM module of its type? I've never seen one before so I have no idea.

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Post by nsxwolf » Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 3:53 PM UTC

hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #4

That's crazy, you can see it's handmade. I wonder if it still works?

Might be fun to hook it up to an Arduino and see if you could read/write. I imagine it needs its own power supply.