This is a great example of computer architecture from the days of Peace, Love, and Woodstock. A time when America led the entire world in development and production of computer hardware.
For those of you who worked with computers back in the day, you know what this item is, and you remember how people had huge respect for your abilities to work with those very mysterious machines :D
For those of you who didn't here is a bit of..
Memory and Money... non-fungible, fun facts:
A four kilobit (4kb) core memory plane similar to this cost approximately $2,000 back in the 1960s.
Inflation calculators tell us that equates to approximately$21,500 in today's dollars.
Such boards have a tiny amount of memory in comparison to today's:
The 4,096 donut-shaped Ferrite Magnets on this board = 4,096 bits4,096 bits = 4 kiloBITS = 4kb4kb = 0.5 kiloBYTES = 0.5kB
In 2025, many home computers and notebooks are now sold with 8 Gigabytes of RAM. A bit of math leads us to understand that modern personal computers have over 16 million times the amount of RAM on this 1960's card.
Does the math work in reverse? 16 million x $2,000 would mean the RAM in your personal computer would be worth $32 Billion dollars in 1960? Umm.. yes, and MUCH more.. you would likely become emperor or empress of the world if you could time-travel with it and the rest of your computer back to the 60's
Thank you for class="svelte-x57wqa" style="text-align: center; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;">Your purchase supports humanity
World Central Kitchen (WCK), founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing fresh, nourishing meals in response to crises worldwide.
Operating on a model of rapid deployment, local resource utilization, and real-time adaptation, WCK has served over 500 million meals globally. The organization focuses on disaster relief, food insecurity, and community resilience.
WCK is widely recognized for its impactful, scalable humanitarian work, with praise for its efficiency and compassion in emergency response.
As computing and AI continue to changes the way we interact with eachother day-to-day, don't lose your compassion for those suffering in horrible conditions. Unlike the fantasy lives portrayed in The Jetsons cartoon, the reality is that millions of people experience unspeakable suffering every day.
Each one of those people are suffering as your read this, and it is a suffering that is far worse than those rescued domestic pets you've seen in heart-wrenching ASPCA commercials.
25% of this item's sale price will be sent directly to fund WCF's relief efforts.
but.. You don't need to purchase this item in order to help!
As you are able, please intervene with your donation to organizations like World Central Kitchen, Doctors Without Boarders, Feeding America, and World Vision. Your help is truly needed. Let thathero inside you come out and shine!
