Steve Tinter
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Very interesting, Steve! 5-wire cores yet. I wonder if this is for a computer at all. Core was used in jukeboxes and calculators. Even the 650 and 701 had more (optional) core than this would indicate.
I contacted the guy I bought it from again - he said it came in a stack of 8 cores in a chassis so that would rule out calculator I am guessing
Yeah, it is pretty small; wonder what it is out of. I've got a core plane from a key-to-tape unit that's four times the size, and a desktop calculator core that's not much smaller than this one. 144 'bytes' could still be a calculator, or as Chuck suggests, a buffer for a peripheral of some kind.Most likely, this is from a printer, card reader/punch or other piece of unit record equipment. Much too small for even a machine as old as an IBM 650.
Interesting that there are so many wires; looks like four horizontal and two vertical, plus the sense. Any clue in that?