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From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Mercury delay lines
Message-ID: <2031@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 90 06:16:54 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In <3040@softway.oz>, adjg@softway.oz (Andrew Gollan) writes:
>
>I have always liked the idea of mercury delay lines, and the story
>someone told me of "playing them like a harp" when his program went
>wrong and getting weird results from the machine.
>
>Can anyone tell me what machines had these memories?

    I was just reading A Few Good Men from Univac [ISBN 0-262-12120-4]
 last night & Lundstrom mentions that the Univac_I used Hg Delay lines.
 UNIVAC_II moved up to core memory.
    <-Harvey

    PS.
    So what did become of FRAM?

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