One of our favorite musical hackers, [Look Mum No Computer] is getting dangerously close to building a computer. His quest was to create a unique drum machine, inspired by a Soviet auto-dialer that ...

Many Hackaday readers will be familiar with the term “core memory”, likely thanks to its close association with the Apollo Guidance Computer. But knowing that the technology existed at one point and ...

This 1970s tech USB drive uses magnetic-core memory, stores 128 bytes, and is the size of a dinner plate. It sports a 32x32 ferrite-core grid (1024 bits); hand-woven wires show vintage craftsmanship.

This iteration of Electronic Design: Now and Then was inspired when I was reading "Using Magnetic Cores in Computers" from our archives. This article was originally published in Electronic Design ...