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October 21, 1949: Wang Patents Magnetic Ferrite Core Memory

October 21, 2014

Wang Ferrite Core Memory


1949 -An Wang files a patent for magnetic core memory using ferrite. It was entitled “pulse transfer controlling devices.†This was the first sign and the rise of Wang industries – a company that would be a dominant computer to IBM until it’s fall in 1992.This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for October 21

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