RAM prices are bad. Like, really bad. So one maker decided to do something about it — he built his own memory drive using magnetic core memory, the same tech that powered Apollo guidance computers.
This isn’t just a nostalgia project. Magnetic core memory is hand-threaded. Tiny ferrite cores strung on wires, each one storing a single bit. It’s ancient. It’s painstaking. And it works.
The builder salvaged parts from old Russian computers and threaded them into a USB drive. Hand-threaded. Bit by bit. The result is a functional storage device using technology from the 1960s, connected to a modern USB port.
Let that sink in. Modern RAM pricing is so absurd that someone chose to resurrect hand-threaded magnetic core memory from Soviet-era hardware rather than pay current market rates.
It’s a statement. And honestly? Kind of a cool one. The Apollo guidance computer ran on this stuff and landed humans on the Moon. Now it’s running as a USB drive because DDR5 prices are out of control.
