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  • Mercury delay line
  • Williams tube (CRT)
  • Selectron tube
  • Magnetic drum
  • Ferrite core
  • etc.

Ferrite core was the first random access memory that was reliable and inexpensive (if you call $1.50 to $6.00 per byte inexpensive), so by the second generation it was dominate.

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