Interesting part

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Jun 12 22:06:13 2004

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Rick Bensene wrote:

> This technology was actually used into the early 1970's, as it was
> inexpensive compared to other technologies such as discrete transistor
> flip flops, magnetic core memory, small-scale IC flip flops, and small
> magnetic drum memory.

Small magnetic drum memory? Neat! How small? What calculator models
used that type of memory?

I have a couple nice calculators that use delay lines. And I also have a
delay line memory module that used to be in a calculator.

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