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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on March 21, 2010, 10:53:09 am

Title: A trip down memory lane
Post by: Kosh on March 21, 2010, 10:53:09 am

 Delay line memory anyway (http://gizmodo.com/5498229/delay-line-memory-how-computers-remembered-before-ram)


Here's a picture of one:

(http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_linemem.jpg)


When I saw someone post this on another site I thought it was some kind of car engine........

To give an idea as to how ancient this thing really is, it was used in the Univac 1.

Title: Re: A trip down memory lane
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 21, 2010, 01:08:21 pm

Now fighters can make inter-system jumps!

Title: Re: A trip down memory lane
Post by: el_magnifico on March 21, 2010, 02:55:30 pm

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If you had a hard time remembering things for very long, and happened to live in a cave, you could just shout out what you didn't want to forget, and a few seconds later you would hear an echo to remind you. Of course, the problem with this is that an echo doesn't stick around for long, so you would have to shout again every time that you heard the echo, so that you could remember again in a few seconds. Assuming you could keep this up, you would never forget your idea.

So that's how prehistoric cavemen remembered things before writing was invented. :lol: