plated wire memory

[Kyle Owen]

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

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