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On 4/4/25 4:38 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 04/04/2025 01:16, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 16:38:57 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>>
>>>     The 360/370 boxes WERE really popular, so I'm gonna GUESS there's a
>>>     least one or two still chugging away. Maint cost would be insane
>>>     these days ... but you can kinda bury that in the budget while new
>>>     hardware stands out more and in more places.
>>
>> I'm not sure there are any little old ladies left to knit magnetic core.
> 
> Last time I looked they were little asian ladies wit teeny nimble fingers.
> Did all the coil winding in that factory.

   Look up "rope memory"  :-)

   Hey, it flew us to the moon ...