Amin Girasol<p>In 1972, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/core" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>core</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a> was manufactured in <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dublin</span></a> by the Irish subsidiary of US-headquartered Dataproducts, trading as "Data Products/Core Memories Ltd." </p><p>They made what they claimed was "...the world’s largest core stack, 131K x 80". Judging by the info in the caption, the latter number is the number of bits per word, so in eight-bit bytes, that's 1,310 kilobytes.</p><p>I can't imagine that business survived more than a couple more years. Soon the semiconductor manufacturers had set up shop in Ireland.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CoreMemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoreMemory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OtherGeographies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OtherGeographies</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataproducts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapr</span><span class="invisible">oducts</span></a></p>