Fabritek Core Memory - Revision history

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External links: At the CHM

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	* [https://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/60s/moby.htm "Moby Memory", by Larry Krakauer]		* [https://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/60s/moby.htm "Moby Memory", by Larry Krakauer]
			* [https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102731715 FABRI-TEK Mass Core "Moby" Memory] - at the [[Computer History Museum\|CHM]]

	[[Category: PDP-10 Memories]]		[[Category: PDP-10 Memories]]

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	[[Image:Moby.JPG\|220px\|right\|thumb\|The "Moby" Memory]]		[[Image:Moby.JPG\|220px\|right\|thumb\|The "Moby" Memory]]

	256K x 40 bit core memory.		The '''Fabritek Core Memory''' was 256K x 40 bit [[core memory]] for the [[PDP-6]] and [[KA10]].

	Former Fabri-Tek engineer Gary Andersen told this story:		Former Fabri-Tek engineer Gary Andersen told this story:

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	* [https://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/60s/moby.htm "Moby Memory", by Larry Krakauer]		* [https://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/60s/moby.htm "Moby Memory", by Larry Krakauer]

	[[Category:PDP-10 ~~memories~~]]		[[Category: PDP-10 Memories]]

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	[[Image:Moby.JPG\|~~300px~~\|~~rightt~~\|thumb\|The "Moby" Memory]]		[[Image:Moby.JPG\|220px\|right\|thumb\|The "Moby" Memory]]

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	''I said, all we have is a prototype. His response was, “I don’t care. Thanks. When you be in Boston again?” Two weeks later our sales guy and I negotiated a 1 MB add on for his DEC PDP6 computers, one of only 26 PDP6 computers made, for about $230,000 for a 5 microsecond cycle time memory that used 80m ferrite cores, plus another $5000 for every 1/2 microsecond better cycle time, I believe. He wrote the order number on the back of an envelope. ''		''I said, all we have is a prototype. His response was, “I don’t care. Thanks. When you be in Boston again?” Two weeks later our sales guy and I negotiated a 1 MB add on for his DEC PDP6 computers, one of only 26 PDP6 computers made, for about $230,000 for a 5 microsecond cycle time memory that used 80m ferrite cores, plus another $5000 for every 1/2 microsecond better cycle time, I believe. He wrote the order number on the back of an envelope. ''

			[[Image:Fabri-tekPDP-10CoreMemory.jpg\|180px\|left\|thumb\|Control panel]]

	''We didn’t believe it, but a week later a hard copy purchase order came from MIT. It was a real chore. Not only the memory, but also the interface. As I remember DEC wasn’t real cooperative. It was a long haul, but we finished and got paid $240,000, I believe''		''We didn’t believe it, but a week later a hard copy purchase order came from MIT. It was a real chore. Not only the memory, but also the interface. As I remember DEC wasn’t real cooperative. It was a long haul, but we finished and got paid $240,000, I believe''

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	== External links ==		== External links ==

	* [https://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/60s/moby.htm "Moby Memory", by Larry Krakauer]		* [https://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/60s/moby.htm "Moby Memory", by Larry Krakauer]

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	[[Category:PDP-10 memories]]		[[Category:PDP-10 memories]]

Larsbrinkhoff at 14:09, 8 January 2022

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	Former Fabri-Tek engineer Gary Andersen told this story:		Former Fabri-Tek engineer Gary Andersen told this story:
	''It was one of the first 1 MB add on memories, if not the first, built by a third party vendor. I gave a paper on the design at the Spring Joint Computer show in Manhattan in May of 1965. Dr. Marvin Minsky, from his artificial intelligence lab, [was in the audience]. Unshaven, in a white dress shirt hanging out in back, and in sock-less sandal shoes he came up to me and said, “I want one.”		''It was one of the first 1 MB add on memories, if not the first, built by a third party vendor. I gave a paper on the design at the Spring Joint Computer show in Manhattan in May of 1965. Dr. Marvin Minsky, from his artificial intelligence lab, [was in the audience]. Unshaven, in a white dress shirt hanging out in back, and in sock-less sandal shoes he came up to me and said, “I want one.”''

	I said, all we have is a prototype. His response was, “I don’t care. Thanks. When you be in Boston again?” Two weeks later our sales guy and I negotiated a 1 MB add on for his DEC PDP6 computers, one of only 26 PDP6 computers made, for about $230,000 for a 5 microsecond cycle time memory that used 80m ferrite cores, plus another $5000 for every 1/2 microsecond better cycle time, I believe. He wrote the order number on the back of an envelope.		''I said, all we have is a prototype. His response was, “I don’t care. Thanks. When you be in Boston again?” Two weeks later our sales guy and I negotiated a 1 MB add on for his DEC PDP6 computers, one of only 26 PDP6 computers made, for about $230,000 for a 5 microsecond cycle time memory that used 80m ferrite cores, plus another $5000 for every 1/2 microsecond better cycle time, I believe. He wrote the order number on the back of an envelope. ''

	We didn’t believe it, but a week later a hard copy purchase order came from MIT. It was a real chore. Not only the memory, but also the interface. As I remember DEC wasn’t real cooperative. It was a long haul, but we finished and got paid $240,000, I believe''		''We didn’t believe it, but a week later a hard copy purchase order came from MIT. It was a real chore. Not only the memory, but also the interface. As I remember DEC wasn’t real cooperative. It was a long haul, but we finished and got paid $240,000, I believe''

	== External links ==		== External links ==

Larsbrinkhoff at 14:08, 8 January 2022

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	256K x 40 bit core memory.		256K x 40 bit core memory.

	Former Fabri-Tek engineer Gary ~~Anderson~~ told this story:		Former Fabri-Tek engineer Gary Andersen told this story:
	''It was one of the first 1 MB add on memories, if not the first, built by a third party vendor. I gave a paper on the design at the Spring Joint Computer show in Manhattan in May of 1965. Dr. Marvin Minsky, from his artificial intelligence lab, [was in the audience]. Unshaven, in a white dress shirt hanging out in back, and in sock-less sandal shoes he came up to me and said, “I want one.”		''It was one of the first 1 MB add on memories, if not the first, built by a third party vendor. I gave a paper on the design at the Spring Joint Computer show in Manhattan in May of 1965. Dr. Marvin Minsky, from his artificial intelligence lab, [was in the audience]. Unshaven, in a white dress shirt hanging out in back, and in sock-less sandal shoes he came up to me and said, “I want one.”

Larsbrinkhoff: Story about how Minsky purchased the Moby memory.

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Story about how Minsky purchased the Moby memory.

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	256K x 40 bit core memory.		256K x 40 bit core memory.

			Former Fabri-Tek engineer Gary Anderson told this story:
			''It was one of the first 1 MB add on memories, if not the first, built by a third party vendor. I gave a paper on the design at the Spring Joint Computer show in Manhattan in May of 1965. Dr. Marvin Minsky, from his artificial intelligence lab, [was in the audience]. Unshaven, in a white dress shirt hanging out in back, and in sock-less sandal shoes he came up to me and said, “I want one.”

			I said, all we have is a prototype. His response was, “I don’t care. Thanks. When you be in Boston again?” Two weeks later our sales guy and I negotiated a 1 MB add on for his DEC PDP6 computers, one of only 26 PDP6 computers made, for about $230,000 for a 5 microsecond cycle time memory that used 80m ferrite cores, plus another $5000 for every 1/2 microsecond better cycle time, I believe. He wrote the order number on the back of an envelope.

			We didn’t believe it, but a week later a hard copy purchase order came from MIT. It was a real chore. Not only the memory, but also the interface. As I remember DEC wasn’t real cooperative. It was a long haul, but we finished and got paid $240,000, I believe''

	== External links ==		== External links ==

Larsbrinkhoff: Link to Krakauer's page.

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Link to Krakauer's page.

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	256K x 40 bit core memory.		256K x 40 bit core memory.

			== External links ==

			* [https://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/60s/moby.htm "Moby Memory", by Larry Krakauer]

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	[[Category:PDP-10 memories]]		[[Category:PDP-10 memories]]

Larsbrinkhoff: Add photo from CHM.

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Add photo from CHM.

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			[[Image:Moby.JPG\|300px\|rightt\|thumb\|The "Moby" Memory]]

	256K x 40 bit core memory.		256K x 40 bit core memory.

Larsbrinkhoff: Stub.

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Stub.

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256K x 40 bit core memory.

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[[Category:PDP-10 memories]]