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If you want names, transformer read-only storage was originally invented by T. L. Dimond in 1951 and used by Bell Labs. At IBM Hursley Laboratory, Antony Proudm
by kens 7y ago
If you want names, transformer read-only storage was originally invented by T. L. Dimond in 1951 and used by Bell Labs. At IBM Hursley Laboratory, Antony Proudman was responsible for memory development including TROS.
- Animats 7y agoOh, the Dimond ring translator.[1] What a hack. As I've pointed out before, the early history of computing was a struggle to get enough memory. Any kind of memory. IBM had an electronic multiplier in test before WWII. Eckert, at Columbia University, built some incredible semi-programmable kludges out of IBM tabulator equipment. (He went on to be one of the designers of the UNIVAC I.) But memory remained insanely expensive, more than a million dollars a megabyte, into the 1970s, 30 years after the first all-electronic arithmetic unit. [1] http://etler.com/docs/Crossbar/articles/30-AMATranslator.pdf http://etler.com/docs/Crossbar/articles/30-AMATranslator.pdf
- kens 7y agoConfusingly, there were two unrelated Eckerts in early computing. Wallace Eckert was an astronomer at Columbia who figured out crazy ways to use punch card accounting machines to do scientific computation, and wrote the book "Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation". Presper Eckert, who was unrelated to Wallace Eckert, is the better-known co-designer of the groundbreaking ENIAC computer (along with Mauchly). They then designed the UNIVAC I, basically the first successful commercial computer.
- Animats 7y agoOops, my bad. Thought those two were the same.