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Some Old Fashioned RAM

Not exactly random access, and hardly a chip, this magnetic drum unit was the memory in the IBM 650 computer, introduced in 1954. It held two thousand 10-digit words. That much memory today would fit inside the period at the end of this sentence. See also core storage and early memories. (Image courtesy of the Hagley Museum and Library.)

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An adult ram.