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by KMag 912 days ago
No, I'm not talking about magnetic core memory. Core rope memory also used little magnetic rings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory input wires were energized, and they were coupled (or not) to the output wires depending on if they shared a magnetic ring (or not).

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Thanks! I'd never heard of rope memory.