Drums

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Tue Apr 18 11:53:11 2000

> I think I heard somewhere that magnetic drums are somewhat like core memory,
> i.e. they retain their contents when shut off...

Well, Drums are just a spcial kind of disk - it's a
geometrical phenomena - a disk where all tracks have
the same length :=)

Gruss
H.

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