Experimental magnetic drum store
- Made:
- c. 1946 in London
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Experimental model used in design of magnetic-drum store
Magnetic drum stores were used as memory devices for storing information in computers. This experimental drum store was first devised by Andrew Donald Booth in London as a memory device. Information is stored on a magnetisable strip on the drum which is rotated by a motor. Digital information is stored as a binary magnetic pattern. Information can be written to and read from the drum. Fully engineered drum stores were widely used in production computers during the 1950s and 1960s.
Details
- Category:
- Computing & Data Processing
- Object Number:
- 1959-180
- type:
- memory devices
- credit:
- Booth,A.D.
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