Adds a whole new dimension to the term "memory leak". Marc
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:32 AM, dwight via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't imagine why it needed to be reworked. That is only what I was > told. I always thought it was kind of funny. > > The Olivetti used a piece of wire for the delay line. I forget what the > Dielh Combitron used but I know it used a two delay lines. One was for > registers and the other was for lookup tables that loaded at turn on time > from a metal tape ( as I recall ). > > Dwight > > > ________________________________ > From: cctalk <[email protected]> on behalf of Pontus Pihlgren > via cctalk <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:11:10 AM > To: Noel Chiappa; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Univac I memory tank > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:41:57PM -0400, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > > 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? > > CHM has one: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X976.89 > > It used to be on display, perhaps it still is. > > /P >
