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October 21, 1949: Wang Patents Magnetic Ferrite Core Memory


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<img decoding="async" width="300" height="300" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2012/10/600px-KL_CoreMemory1-300x300.jpg" alt="Wang Ferrite Core Memory" class="wp-image-20071" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/600px-KL_CoreMemory1-300x300.jpg 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/600px-KL_CoreMemory1-150x150.jpg 150w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/600px-KL_CoreMemory1-65x65.jpg 65w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/600px-KL_CoreMemory1.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Wang Ferrite Core Memory

1949 -An Wang files a patent for magnetic core memory using ferrite. It was entitled “pulse transfer controlling devices.” This was the first sign and the rise of Wang industries – a company that would be a dominant computer to IBM until it’s fall in 1992.

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