Episode 77 - Magnetic Memories
Advent of Computing
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Memory Is the Heart of a Computer
Once we figured out that logic elements could be used to construct puters, that was kind of it. We've basically stuck to that technology ever since. Magnetic corpe memory is somewhat unique in the roster because of its success and longevity. For a period of two or so decades, corn memory was the default memory option. It was fully random access, and perhaps strangest of all, it was non volatile.
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