15 - Digital Storage Memory

Why digital?

Why digital?

Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory technology, I intend to make this chapter unique in presenting both…

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Digital Memory Concepts

When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not only need some way to store and…

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Modern Non-mechanical Memory

Now we can proceed to studying specific types of digital storage devices. To start, I want to explore some of…

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Non-mechanical Memory Technologies

Perhaps the most ingenious technique was that of the delay line. A delay line is any kind of device which delays…

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Read-only Memory

Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM circuits, except that the "latching" mechanism is made…

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Memory with Moving Parts: Drives

The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was that of the punched paper card. Joseph Marie Jacquard…

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