Episode 77 - Magnetic Memories
Advent of Computing
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Random Access Memory
The word ram and memory are pretty much synonymous, but you have to be careful with your language when dealing with the historic context. Ram stands for random access memory, where you can access any address at any time,. On the other end of the spectrum we have sequential access memory - devices that store data one bit after the other in a set order.
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