Talk:Tom Kilburn
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Where you say: "Kilburn and Williams collaboratively developed a storage device based on a cathode ray tube and capable of storing a single bit."
I think it needs emphasing that by the time this idea was used in the first stored program machine the CRT held a whole screen full of bits dancing in real time. Might not be obvious to the layman.
My authority for saying this is that I attended an open day at Manchester in the late 70's and saw a machine, albeit unpowered, and it was explained to me how it worked. I believe there was random access on a per raster line basis.
Hope this helps, Nic
