File:Project Whirlwind - core memory, circa 1951 - detail 1.JPG

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Description Project Whirlwind - core memory, circa 1951, developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA. Capacity of 2 kilobytes. Load rate was 40,000 instructions / second. In Charles River Museum of Industry, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, on loan from the MIT Museum.
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