10b-Memory

After my lecture in class on early digital computers (ENIAC, EDVAC and UNIVAC) and the role of Presper Eckert, John Mauchly and John von Neumann in their development, we will look at a short video on mercury delay line memory and von Neumann’s First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC. 

You should then post an entry explaining how Delay Line memory and Dynamic Random Access Memory work and how they differ.  Some of the first computers, like the EDVAC and the UNIVAC, used the former.  What are some of the uses for DRAM today?  Once you have visited Micron add an account of the manufacturing process you saw on the tour. 

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