WOW. How did it use drum as main memmory? Did it have like 1K of real memory 
and have hardware to move from drum upon address resolution? Or is drum a 
similar architecture to ram?

Jon Perryman.




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> From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]>
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>   at 02:09 PM, Gabe Goldberg <[email protected]> said:
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>>Strolling Down Memory (Core) Lane
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>Core? On my first machine, main memory was drum.
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