File:Project Whirlwind - core memory, circa 1951 - detail 1.JPG
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Project Whirlwind - core memory, circa 1951, developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA. Museum sign describes capacity as 2Kb; I do not know if this means kilobytes or kilobits, and word size is not describe. Load rate was 40,000 instructions / second. In Charles River Museum of Industry, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, on loan from the MIT Museum.
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| current | 22:06, 3 January 2017 | | 2,448 × 3,264 (2.64 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>Project Whirlwind - core memory, circa 1951, developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA. Museum sign describes capacity as 2Kb; I do not know if this means kilobytes or kilobits, and word size is not describe. Load rate was 40,000 instructions / second. In Charles River Museum of Industry, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, on loan from the MIT Museum. </p> |
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