Fragment of the 8K (8 kilobyte) work fixed store from an ICl/Ferranti Atlas 1 computer (1963),showing the rectangular "hairbrush" units,consisting of rows of copper & carbon rods that are plugged-in to the underlying copper mesh. Inividual "hairbrush" units are seen at top right. In computing a word is considered as an entity of bits,bytes or characters that is capable of being stored in one location in the computer's memory | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Terry, Sheila / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
Taille de l’image : | 4810 px × 4875 px |
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