Episode 77 - Magnetic Memories
Advent of Computing
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The Magnetic Drum - A Novel Approach to Computer Memory
When wang entered the lab, Howard aken had already completed his work on the mark one through three computers and was laying out designs for the mark four. Wang's break through used the same principle that made magnetic drum memory work, just applied in a different way. A changing magnetic field will induce an electric field,. That and the fact that fair magnetism has the strange historisis property. The actual starting point for wang's work almost comes from left field. And to be completely clear, we aren't talking about the robots. Those already have memory tucked away somewhere.
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