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Most used ferrite core magnetic memory, but some other memory technologies also used were:
- plated wire magnetic memory
- thin-film magnetic memory
- rotating magnetic drum or disk memory
- magnetostrictive wire delayline memory
- etc.
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∙ 7y agoMost of the first generation (vacuum tube) computers used magnetic core memory, as did most of the second generation (transistorized) and third generation (integrated circuit) computers.
Other kinds of memory used in first generation (vacuum tube) computers included:
- rotating drum electrostatic dynamic memory (e.g. Atanasoff-Berry Computer)
- Mercury acoustic delay line dynamic memory (e.g. UNIVAC I, EDVAC, EDSAC)
- Williams-Kilburn tube CRT electrostatic dynamic memory (e.g. IBM 701, ERA/UNIVAC 1103, Manchester Mark I, Los Alamos' MANIAC)
- selectron electrostatic static memory (e.g. Princeton IAS computer)
- magnetic drum memory (e.g. ERA/UNIVAC 1101, IBM 650, IBM 305 RAMAC, Bendix G-15, Librascope LGP-30)
- magnetic single platter fixed head disk memory, variation on magnetic drum memory
- magnetostrictive wire acoustic delay line dynamic memory
- etc.
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microprocessor
What primary storage was used in the first generation computers?
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Are fourth generation computers the first to use pictures?
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What primary storage was used in the first generation computers?
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What is the evolution of fourth generation of computers till present?
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What is the operating system used in fourth generation computers?
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Are fourth generation computers the first to use pictures?
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What is electro mechanical period in computer history?
roughly 1890 through 1960, it overlaps first and second generation electronic computers with some equipment still in use in the 1970s assisting third generation electronic computers for offline functions.
