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	Magnetic core memory -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Magnetic devices had many of the virtues of the (A semiconductor device capable of amplification) transistor and solid-state devices that would replace them, and saw considerable use in military applications.
		A notable example was the portable (truck-based) (additional info and facts about MOBIDIC) MOBIDIC computer developed by Sylvania for the U. Army Signal Corps in the late fifties.
		In early systems there were four wires, X, Y, Sense and Inhibit, but later cores combined the latter two wires into one Sense/Inhibit line.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/magnetic_core_memory.htm (1910 words)

	Carl Hammer Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He joined Sylvania's Programming and Analysis Department in 1957 to work on the Mobidic system, and worked on the ballistic missle early warning system.
		In 1959 he became administrative technical project coordinator for the Radio Corporation of America's Surface Communications Division, where he worked on Polaris communications, and ITandT and ATandT international cables; in 1961, he became manager of RCA's Scientific Computer applications and worked on Minuteman.
		History of Computing Committee, Correspondence and the Mobidic and Fieldata Programs, September 1985.
	www.cbi.umn.edu /collections/inv/cbi00003.html (4545 words)

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