20 Oct
2019
20 Oct
'19
7:59 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 09:45 Nigel Johnson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org wrote:
I remember an IBM engineer talking about this at our
ham radio club. The
wire was coiled inside a drum and pulses were sent down the wire. The
'read head' was a magnetic pickup at the other end of the coil - and
access time was however long it took the pulse to arrive at the other
end.
You are describing delay line memory. Plated wire memory is more akin to
core memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plated_wire_memory
Kyle