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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.

There were drums before core, used as main memory. Optomizers would
put instructions on the drum so the next instruction (or data) was
under the head when the previous instruction completed.

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Keith