I don't know much about plated wire store, but I do know it was used in the Manchester University MU5 computer which pioneered heuristic pipelining. There is some info here:-
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cgi/rni/comp-arch.pl?Ibuff/mu5-ibu.html,Ibuff/ mu5-ibu-f.html,Ibuff/menu-mu5.html https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YD5dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=%22mu5% 22+plated+wire+store&source=bl&ots=4vqufyFe81&sig=ACfU3U07-MqiT-58mc16Yjs7C1 eFm_m4UA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVhdb5kavlAhW5TxUIHbJ9Cz4Q6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=on epage&q=%22mu5%22%20plated%20wire%20store&f=true Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of dwight via cctalk > Sent: 20 October 2019 15:36 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: plated wire memory > > I was just listening to a video on the Voyager space craft. It used an interesting > type of memory, called magnetic wire memory. There is only a little bit of > information of it on the web. It is clever in that has a non-destructive read. I > just wondered if any one else was familiar with this type of memory. > Dwight >
