Comment Comment by Animats On the topic of RAM, I was recently researching the vintage IBM 650 computer (1953) ... but this RAM was actually a hard disk.Actually it was a drum. No moving arms at all, but some tracks had multiple read/write heads to reduce access time.Knuth's high school science fair project was to write an angular optimizing assembler for the IBM 650, called SOAP III. parent Animats 1 year ago
Actually it was a drum. No moving arms at all, but some tracks had multiple read/write heads to reduce access time.
Knuth's high school science fair project was to write an angular optimizing assembler for the IBM 650, called SOAP III.