In <1378659509.50854.yahoomail...@web181006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, on
09/08/2013
at 09:58 AM, Jon Perryman <jperr...@pacbell.net> said:
>WOW. How did it use drum as main memmory?
Same way as any other drum computer.
>Did it have like 1K of real memory
A drum *is* real memory. In this case, 2K 10 digit words.
>Or is drum a similar architecture to ram?
If your RAM is in a centrifuge<g, d & r>.
Every drum computer that I know of had a head per track, so access
time was rotational delay.
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