The history of magnetic memory in a Soviet computer: iron toroids.

The material describes an old magnetic memory from a Soviet mainframe computer that stores 4096 bits of data. The memory was one of the first forms of computer memory and had to be hand-woven. The data is stored in iron toroids, and reading is done by changing the magnetization.

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