Roman - CPU collector by night, office plankton by day

Are these old CPUs? These are in a couple boxes of similar era stuff I came across a long time ago. I remember some cards having wooden brackets instead of aluminum or steel. What forums would be good to ask about this type of stuff? Kinda feel like digging these out.

Originally Posted by ryanw

Are these old CPUs?

I believe those are magnetic ferrite memory core boards. Very old and all hand made. Those are keepers. Good find

So I pulled the boxes out. These two are completely different from the ferrite core memory modules I have. I have some hand wound modules from Spectra 70, Fabri-Tek, Core Memories LTD, and Data-RAM. In these pictures, the top one has no ferrite. This are just woven wires. The bottom one might be woven, but it is completely solid on top of a copper sheet. It would break if I gave enough force to bend it. The bottom one I haven't seen anything like it.

Originally Posted by ryanw

Are these old CPUs? These are in a couple boxes of similar era stuff I came across a long time ago. I remember some cards having wooden brackets instead of aluminum or steel. What forums would be good to ask about this type of stuff? Kinda feel like digging these out.

I have no idea what this might be ))) but it sure looks old )