The Tiny Chip That Killed Magnetic Core Memory

Summary

IBM's early computers could barely hold onto data. Mercury delay lines, spinning drums, vacuum tubes, all of it fragile and slow. TechnologyHistory Before modern RAM In 1970, a two-year-old company called Intel started selling a It helped semiconductor memory challenge Its flagship product—the Intel 1103 memory Dr. Bernard Widrow shows us his In 1956, computers faced a problem that had nothing to do with processing speed: they simply didn't have enough A look at the crazy ferrite core density in the Ampex 1600 16k x 18 bit word The insane machines that make the most advanced computer