From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Delay line memory (was: Clever code)
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 17:30:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221215063047.GB84239@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202212131431.2BDEVCls018959@freefriends.org>
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On Tuesday, 13 December 2022 at 7:31:12 -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> For us (relative) youngsters, can you explain some more how delay
> line memory worked?
At a slight tangent, if you're ever in Melbourne (Australia, of
course), you should take a look at CSIRAC, allegedly the oldest intact
computer still in existence. It had delay line memory. I took some
photos of it years ago:
http://www.lemis.com/grog/photos/Photos.php?dirdate=20040904
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-15 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-13 3:30 [TUHS] Re: Clever code Rudi Blom
2022-12-13 3:41 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-13 3:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-13 4:03 ` George Michaelson
2022-12-13 8:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13 9:45 ` Dagobert Michelsen
2022-12-13 7:47 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13 19:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-13 11:46 ` John P. Linderman
2022-12-13 14:07 ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-13 14:31 ` arnold
2022-12-13 14:48 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13 15:10 ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-13 15:34 ` Stuff Received
2022-12-13 15:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13 23:02 ` Harald Arnesen
2022-12-14 7:31 ` arnold
2022-12-15 18:06 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-15 18:08 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-15 6:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2022-12-13 15:52 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-13 16:14 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13 16:30 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-15 6:39 ` [TUHS] Sector interleaving (was: Clever code) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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