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A brief history of memory
Non-Volatile or static memory
- Paper data storage (1725)
- Drum memory (1932)
- could be seen as a predecessor of the hard disk
- Magnetic-core memory (1949)
- first reliable random access memory
- Plated wire memory (1957)
- Thin-film memory (1962)
- Twistor memory (~1968)
- Bubble memory (~1970)
Volatile or non-static memory
- [Williams–Kilburn tube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube](1946–47)
- [Delay line memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory](1947)
- [Selectron tube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectron_tube](1953)