New Memory

Cool I've been looking forward to this... Now we just have to wait another 5 or so years for it to become cost competitive with other memory...
 
What I find odd, is the fact that back in the late 1970's, we installed PLCs (Programable Logic Controllers) that had non-volatile memory in it. The actual program was store in this memory. And it retained the program when the power was off.

Bozo :joker:
 
That was probably "core" memory, the stuff they used to put in the mainframes of those days - I believe IBM 1401 and on up until the 370. Howibbly expensive. AFAIK, the unit record machines didn't have any, but I never worked on one or even saw one, so I could be wrong. On second thought, since the URMs could tabulate, they probably had a k or 2 of c-ram to hold the totals.
 
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