On 6/23/2011 7:57, Invisible wrote:
> Oh. I hadn't realised it was this small. I was thinking that the "cores"
> were the same sort of size as the RF filters you still find on some cables.

Not really. Draw a circle as small as you can with a fine mechanical pencil, 
and you get something the size of a core.

>  From the look of this photograph, they actually put the stuff on "chips" of
> a sort...

Boards. That picture is a 10cm x 10cm board. 8K was about as big as you 
could hold in one hand, stretching your fingers.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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