Talk:Delay line memory

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Removed the sentence:

"The only commercial delay line computer ever built (the IBM 701), used steel wire, formed into a shapes resembling a long bed-spring."

The IBM 701 used Williams tube memory (and later core memory), not delay lines. Also the UNIVAC I, a commercial computer used mercury delay line memory. -- RTC 23:20 Mar 18, 2003 (UTC)

If that was inaccurate you should have removed the IBM 701 part, not the mention of wire delay lines; those really existed. PML.

I removed the sentence because it was contrasting "experimental" computers to "commercial" computers and claimed that there was only one delay line based commercial machine. Initially I simply removed the 701 part, but decided that the "only one" part had to be wrong too. I am sure there were other delay line based commercial computers! Some of them probably did use wire. -- RTC 23:30 Mar 18, 2003 (UTC)

BTW, thanks for blending the "wire" part into the rest of the article! -- RTC 23:31 Mar 18, 2003 (UTC)

Will someone please explain what the picture is in the first link at the bottom? What are all the parts, etc? Would help to visalize what is going on...

__ According to the EDSAC website, the first machine had 512 words of 17-bits each (the 18th bit didn't work due to timing problems.) Two years later the bank was doubled. Where did the information on this page come from ? --Simsong 20:58, 30 July 2006 (UTC)