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Project Whirlwind

From Project Whirlwind report R-209

From Project Whirlwind report R-209

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From Jay Forrester's notebook - Notes on magnetic storage for memory,
June 13, 1949

From Jay Forrester's notebook - Memo about magnetic storage for memory,
June 14, 1949

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Close-up of magnetic core memory showing 64x64 arrangement of magnetic elements on surface plane. circa 1954

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Stephen Dodd, Jay Forrester, Robert Everett, and Ramona Ferenz at Whirlwind I test control in the Barta Building. 1950

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Whirlwind assembly (cover panel removed) with electrostatic storage tube in place. A total of 256 such tube assemblies provided 256 variable memory registers to write computer programs. 1950

Memory bank in Whirlwind. Banks of magnetic-core assemblies now replace electrostatic tube memory. 1953

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Photographs used with the permission of The MITRE Corporation.
Copyright © The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Jay Forrester's notebook from the MIT Magnetic Core Memory Patent Litigation records (AC 337) in the
MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections.

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