Transfluxor Explained

A transfluxor was a specialised type of magnetic core memory element in which each core had two holes, one for writing and another for reading. It had the unusual property that a core's state could be read without erasing it.^[1] In addition to binary data, transfluxors could also store analog values, with no need to drive them into core saturation.^{[2] [3]}

The technology is described in U.S. patent 3048828.^[4]

Transfluxors were used in the ARMA Micro Computer.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Al . Williams. 2024-03-03 . What's A Transfluxor? . 2024-03-03 . Hackaday . en-US.
2. Rajchman . J. . Lo . A. . March 1956 . The Transfiuxor . Proceedings of the IRE . 44 . 3 . 321–332 . 10.1109/JRPROC.1956.275102 . 51640617 . 0096-8390.
3. Walton . C. . April 1969 . The transfluxor as an accurate analog magnetic memory . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control . en . 14 . 2 . 176–182 . 10.1109/TAC.1969.1099139 . 0018-9286.
4. US3048828A. Memory device. 1962-08-07. Cataldo. Ottavio C..