Re: OT, but electronic

CJT wrote:
krw wrote:
In article <469932F7.9020809@xxxxxxxxxxx>, abujlehc@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
dpb wrote:
CJT wrote:
dpb wrote:
aemeijers wrote:
"Oren" <Oren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:cb5g935d8jjpgeksirjd4li1ku7lgjlhle@xxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:54:51 GMT, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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...
I guess you're too young to remember mercury delay lines, then.
Never came across them, true...
Or Coax, or Drum, or...

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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