Re[2]: Self introduction as a new commiter

[Anton Tagunov <at...@mail.cnt.ru>]

NJB> PC.  I am probably the only one here to have actually seen an old drum
NJB> memory (albiet one sitting in storage in Room 100), or a mercury delay
NJB> line.

NH> Drum memories, such modernities!!! How about coil-wound DRAMs, from days when 
NH> computers computed and not stored??

NH> First non-personal-computer I used in 81/82, had drum memories still operating 
NH> as virtual memory.

Okay, I'm not as cool as you, gentelmen ;-)
but this talks has made me remember that
for a while I was programming a computer
which had 1kb of memory and it was on
ferro-magnetic. The funny thing was that
it kept its contents even when switched off.
I could come back in 2 weeks and the data/code
was still there. So RAM == long-time-storage
on that applience. It had two rows of digital
indicators to communicat to humans
and a tape reader/writer (running
on regular moder tapes that are now being
replaced by CD-s), yup a funny applience :-)

BTW is ferro-magnetic memory == coil-wound?

-Anton


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