Re: Many Years Ago
"My own recollection is the semiconductor memory was _available_ in the mid/late 1960s, [...]"
The new English Electric System 4-70 mainframe in 1967 had threaded ferrite cores - 1 MB occupied several 6 feet high cabinets. IIRC the slightly later 4-72 had "plated wire" memory - which was still magnetic but it reduced 1MB to fewer cabinets.
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