Episode 77 - Magnetic Memories
Advent of Computing
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A Little Friendly Exchange Solves an Issue
In 19 forty nine, when discussing project whirlland with the smithsonian institute, wang had this to say: They don't even know the corps existed at the time. The memory was cathod ray tube. But i think forester or somebody at m i t had the idea of a matrix that is by somehow too high too low so they can select one out of a lot using neon. And we never really tried to build a full system. We did tests on individual units, but on the whole it didn't seem to be going anywhere,. and we didn't really pursue it.
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