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krw wrote:
In article ,
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krw wrote:

In article ,

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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
wrote:

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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. ...


That order would be contrary to everything I ever (at least thought) I
knew...taxonomy of the development would be interesting if so...

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