Episode 77 - Magnetic Memories
Advent of Computing
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The Basics of One Bit Memory
The first attempt was carried out using tiny neon lights as the basic memory element. You can easily construct a neon lamp that will strike or turn on at a given voltage and then stay struck until the supply voltage is dropped below some secondary value. The cool part that made this all work had to do with those grids of one bit memories. They were connected directly to the innersections of this wire grid.
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