> > I am probably the only one here to have actually seen an old drum
> > memory (albiet one sitting in storage in Room 100), or a mercury
> > delay line.
> Oh no, you're not :-) I have worked on real-time radar simulations on
> Honeywell DDP-516s with drum memory and paper tape, and PDP-11s with
> core memory.
LOL Cool. The old read-once memory. ;-)
> the drums were so old we had to kick-start them after power-up...I mean
> literally "kick" start
Yes, I believe you. We use to joke about having to get a seismic survey
before we could turn on more than two of them. :-)
--- Noel
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