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