Gregory's Serveryeah looks like this has been taken apart before. https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2018/berkeley-lab-staff-bringing-expertise-computing-artifacts-to-sc18/
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 check out that cordwood construction. really sucks if a part dies in the middle of the board   @tubetime Yeah, the only circuits I've ever seen that look like that are Seymour's. (If it's from a CDC-6600, the transistors should all be CDC-nnn named, because he had to special order them because he wanted silicon instead of germanium.)  Tube🍂Time, but that's the only way they could pack components as densely at the time, isn't it? @tubetime the symmetry of the components and placement though. This was designed and assembled with passion.  @tubetime  @MLE_online oh not this specific module, just in general. "some other folks have taken apart other examples, so the internals are *known*"  @tubetime @MLE_online ah! i thought you meant this one module had been taken apart and you something that showed that  |
@tubetime The idea of how core memory works is so wild. That module is one of the best examples of how compute manufacturers scaled up tech so so far, until it got replaced by something very different. In this, case with silicon chips.