Not a proof in entirety of the claim, but from a ref and looking at the closeup pics from the auction website, it is an unusual form of core memory where the cores have two holes through them, like a blocky figure 8, apparently an aspect of a technique to achieve non-destructive readout. This is quite unusual and would go some ways to showing a provenance to the Gemini project.
On 2015-Oct-28, at 2:45 PM, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote: > Seems like it's worth is totally dependent on its provenance...how do you > prove that? > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:58 PM, feldma...@comcast.net wrote: >>> >>> A core memory unit from Gemini 3 is up for auction: >> http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/10/auction-memory-first-computer-space?et_cid=4906629&et_rid=742193094&location=top >> >> Comical. "Chip" indeed. And "first use of core memory ... in an era of >> rotating drum memory" -- in 1965? I wonder why they have such a clueless >> person write their blurbs. >> >> paul
