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OT, but electronic
krw wrote:
In article ,
says...
dpb wrote:
CJT wrote:
dpb wrote:
aemeijers wrote:
"Oren" wrote in message
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:54:51 GMT, Kurt Ullman
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I have a salvaged set (keepers) of RAM. Four 1/4 meg sticks, equals
1MB of RAM. You guys are old G.
Pish. I remember the 256k sticks as new ...
Well, if we're remembering, I remember when all memory was core...
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I guess you're too young to remember mercury delay lines, then.
Or Coax, or Drum, or...
Actually, drum overlapped core, as I recall.
Never came across them, true...
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To be fair, the only place I have encountered one is at the Smithsonian.
As I recall, they also have an example of a CRT memory device.
Yes, the "Williams Tube": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
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