I guess you're too young to remember mercury delay lines, then.
I guess you're too young to remember mercury delay lines, then.
Me, too. I think I paid about a thousand dollars for it. And that was when a thousand dollars was a lot of money.
Never came across them, true...
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.
Or Coax, or Drum, or...
Yes, the "Williams Tube":
Actually, drum overlapped core, as I recall.
I had mentioned in an earlier subthread the glee w/ which we greeted the first drum when it was installed onsite, and indeed it was on the same machine...
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Since you've mentioned a UPS:
Those usually have modem surge protectors nowadays. If you had yours plugged into a surge protector, remove that and plug it into the phone line directly. Surge protectors can interfere with latest high speed modem protocols.
Well, that said, however, it would be wise to disconnect your modem during thunderstorms if you bypass a surge protector.
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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.
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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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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I did poke around a little -- learned earliest drum memory did far precede core in invention, but didn't really find out much about actual relative times of implementation/widespread usage.
Sorta' interesting, but not _that_ interesting, so I quit... :)
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