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Tanks
Device that provides mass storage of information. (Read the full article)
| "This is also a pretty good description of the upcoming plan to make movies and tv programs downloadable via the Internet." ( 11/23/2007 8:02:38 PM ) |
| "The "Tanks" Will Jenkens described in "A Logic Named Joe" were an extention of 1940s- early 1950s Mercury filled pipes that acted as accoustical shift registers for serial read/write dynamic memory.
A sound pulse was passed from one transducer to another through the mercury filled pipe, detected, amplified, and re-transmitted until the data was cancled (erased).
If the power goes out the memory forgets. " (John, Sartell, Mn, USA 10/1/2008 8:14:23 PM ) |
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