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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...

Neat bunch of people over on alt.folklore.computers, if you're into
this stuff. A lot of them were there at (or near) the beginnings.

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Keith