Hi,
I think I heard somewhere that magnetic drums are somewhat like core memory,
i.e. they retain their contents when shut off... I believe I read this in
the IBM 704 manual, so I'm not entirely certain that facts about those drums
(8192 36-bit words!) can really be applied to the drums I'm going to be
getting, which are from Vermont Research and are approximately 256K or so..
Also, does anyone know what other computer companies used drums from Vermont
Research? They're for my Interdata 7/32, but I know at least Varian used
Vermont Research drums... any others?
Will J
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Received on Tue Apr 18 2000 - 09:37:21 BST