Transfluxor

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A transfluxor was a specialised type of magnetic core memory element in which each core had two holes, one for writing and another for reading. It had the unusual property that a core's state could be read without erasing it. [1] [2] In addition to binary data, transfluxors could also store analog values, with no need to drive them into core saturation. [3] [4]

The technology is described in U.S. patent 3048828. [5]

Transfluxors were used in the ARMA Micro Computer. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Williams, Al (2024-03-03). "What's A Transfluxor?". Hackaday. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  2. ↑ Milligan, G. C. (1964-03-01), Transfluxor circuit amplifies sensing current for computer memories
  3. ↑ Rajchman, J.; Lo, A. (March 1956). "The Transfiuxor". Proceedings of the IRE. 44 (3): 321–332. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1956.275102. ISSN   0096-8390. S2CID   51640617.
  4. ↑ Walton, C. (April 1969). "The transfluxor as an accurate analog magnetic memory". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 14 (2): 176–182. doi:10.1109/TAC.1969.1099139. ISSN   0018-9286.
  5. ↑ US3048828A,Cataldo, Ottavio C.,"Memory device",issued 1962-08-07


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