On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 09:45 Nigel Johnson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I remember an IBM engineer talking about this at our ham radio club. The > wire was coiled inside a drum and pulses were sent down the wire. The > 'read head' was a magnetic pickup at the other end of the coil - and > access time was however long it took the pulse to arrive at the other > end. > You are describing delay line memory. Plated wire memory is more akin to core memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plated_wire_memory Kyle >
