In this 1959 Popular Mechanix report of HECK--RCA's "Home Electronic
Center Kid", the following is mentioned:
"To speed up the working of electronic computers which assist in such
discoveries, the RCA lab recently devised a memory storage plate
smaller and thinner than a four-cent postage stamp. It has 256 tiny
holes in it and can keep a million facts on file and produce them in
any combination or alone in milli-seconds."
Does anyone have any additional information about this device? Was
it ever commercially deployed?
(A couple of interesting asides: Note the "Roomba" in the photo and
the description of the about-to-be-produced RCA Nuvistor--and what
appears to be a raised floor in the exhibit. And the ghastly
"contemporary decor"--could orange shag wall-to-wall carpet be long
in coming?)
Cheers,
Chuck
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