Playing with Soviet Era Ferrite Core Memory Planes

We hook up two Soviet era ferrite core memory planes obtained on eBay. And they still work!

The 4k core plane is likely from a Saratov-2 core stack:
https://rusue.com/cemetery-of-soviet-computers/

The 1k plane is likely from an M-4 memory stack, see:
http://www.mirebs.com/fozu/ru/_mod_ru.html
This would have been used in several military computers says Ralph Mirebs, the author of the web site.

Full schematic of the setup I use in this video:
https://www.curiousmarc.com/computing/core-memory

Previous video explaining core memory:
https://youtu.be/AwsInQLmjXc

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