Dec 18, 2023
Making 32 bespoke hand crafted bits.
Hand made bits are so much nicer than store-bought bits.
In the early days of woven core memory they sent it off to women to weave because the dudes took one look at it and thought “this is girl stuff like sewing and weaving”
I find this hilarious.
Here is a link (cued to the time where it starts) of the best and most clear explanation of how core memory works. Reading & writing a bit has many steps!
I always felt there was something poetic about how one must destroy this kind of memory in order to read it. Observation is never passive... to observe a system is to change it...
