On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Dr. Wang invented the core memory at IBM BTW

Wang did make a magnetic-core storage device (a 2-core-per-bit
shift register) but Jay Forrester's core memory, first installed
on MIT's Whirlwind computer in 1953, is the one that actually
saw use and very quickly dominated the market.
​Excellent. Nice to know.     Thank you,
Clem​