Page 2 - What's Indiana General been cooking up in memory products

Indiana General discovered memory cores

Today, Indiana General is the largest inde- applications for lGC memory cores included
pendent producer and sel ler of memory cores Univac's first commercial computer, and the
in the world. But it's always been that way. SAGE Early Warning System.
It started in the The production of memory cores soon led
late 1940's. Indiana General into the stringing of planes.
Dr. Ernst Albers- Logically, the next step was the assembly of
Schoenberg of In- complete memory arrays. This beginning,
diana General's and a continued program of advance plan-
Electronics Division ning emphasizing material development,
in Keasbey, New core technology and stacking techniques,
Jersey, had long has helped make Indiana General a leader
been considered a in the field of memory products.
leading authority This specialization has helped to produce
and pioneer in the 63 IGC patents related to ferrite materials
I:G:CBo;:n:£n:t:i;:S,:n#ebgyo;E.:. £tE:Fe-. development of fer- and devices, which have found wide appli-
rite materials. How- cation in the computer and general electron-
ever his invention of a unique ferrite mate- ics fields. Other lGC developments have
rial which exhibited a square hysteresis loop been designed to solve specific problems.
proved to be one of his most valuable con- For example, the continuously strung Micro-
tri butions. stack®, a highly reliable, compact memory
From this new material came the ferrite module for military and aerospace applica-
memory core, the first practical solution to tions.
the problem of data storage. The first appli- Support for every phase of our operation
cation for lGC's new memory core was in is available from other lGC divisions. Being
M.I.T.'s Whirlwind I computer. Other early the world's largest manufacturer of magnetic
© Indiana General Corporation,1966 materials has many advantages.