It is not likely to be made to work, easily. From what I was told, the mercury ones needed to be rebuilt after some time.
Most likely because the mercury dissolved one of the metals used in side. I can't imagine what that might be and why they continued to have such a problem but that is what I hear someplace. Dwight ________________________________ From: cctalk <[email protected]> on behalf of Noel Chiappa via cctalk <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 2:41:57 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Univac I memory tank > From: Dwight Kelvey > I need on of those. I think it belongs in a museum, actually. Provided they can make it work, of course! :-) I wonder how many working delay line main memories are left in the world? Noel PS: Sorry about the previous mostly-duplicate message; I hit the 'interrupt' key and it did the wrong thing.
