磁鼓存储器
磁鼓存储器(英语:Drum memory)是一种依靠磁介质的资料存储设备,为20世纪50年代和60年代计算机所用存储器的早期形式,由Gustav Tauschek于1932年在奥地利发明。磁鼓为这套机制的主要工作储存单元,透过穿孔纸带或者打孔卡加载、取出资料。当时许多计算机采用了这种磁鼓存储器,以至于它们常常被叫做“鼓机”(drum machines)。不过不久之后,磁芯存储器等其他技术取代了磁鼓器成为了主要的存储媒体,直到最后半导体存储器进入了存储媒体的领域。
外部链接
- The Story of Mel (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) – the classic story about one programmer's drum machine hand-coding antics: Mel Kaye.
- Librascope LGP-30 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) – The drum memory computer referenced in the above story, also referenced on Librascope LGP-30.
- Librascope RPC-4000 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) – Another drum memory computer referenced in the above story
- Oral history interview with Dean Babcock (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆). Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Babcock discusses various ERA projects including Project Lime; magnetic drum designs and capabilities; the work of Sidney Rubens and William Field on magnetic drums; and ERA's interaction with the Navy during the Korean War.