[GTALUG] CRT memories [was Re: IBM - cache skirmish story.]

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh at mimosa.com
Tue Apr 24 18:06:09 EDT 2018


| From: James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| The delay line was a coil of wire, with the data carried as acoustic
| wave on it.

<http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/309>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory>

I suspect that all wire delay lines were magnetorestrictive, not
acoustic.  I don't know that.


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