core memory

American  

noun

Computers.

1. former term for main memory, which was composed of ring-shaped magnets called cores.

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Etymology

Origin of core memory

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Phi Beta Kappa scholarship is all pure memory work, parrot education.'

From Time Magazine Archive

The state of the brain continues the remembrance; it gives it a hold on the present by the materiality which it confers upon it, but pure memory is a spiritual manifestation.

From Bergson and His Philosophy by Gunn, John Alexander

He knew how, when I thought I had lost thee, I yet lived faithful to the pure memory of our love.

From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

Recognition takes place within the present without any intervention of pure memory.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

"Maria, of pure memory, watch over thy happiness, daughter!" said the monk, for the first time in his life saluting the fair brow of the weeping bride.

From The Bravo by Cooper, James Fenimore