plated wire memory

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun Oct 20 10:46:36 CDT 2019


On 10/20/19 7:43 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> search for NDRO and thin film memory
> Univac used it in their commercial and military computers
> 
Apparently not for long.  The 1107 was a thin-film memory machine, but
the 1108 et seq. was not, IIRC.  At least I don't recall any mention in
the documentation, whereas it was a big thing with the 1107.

My guess is that it was difficult to produce and expensive.

--Chuck



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