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Little
During the first two decades of the Cold War, magnetic core memory was used to store and retrieve information. It was stored in threaded wires through metal rings. It was nicknamed:
LOL MEMORY
Old
Ladies
...after the ladies who wove the wires.
Many of the LOL weavers were women of color, especially immigrants. There is very little information about the women who did the weaving. In public photos of the core memory weavers, they are unnamed.
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