A 16k-word, 2-Mc, magnetic thin-film memory

Abstract

Small magnetic thin-film temporary-data memories have been in use in operational computers since mid-1962, when the prototype Burroughs D825 Modular Data-Processing System was installed at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory. To the present, some 43 additional D825 systems have been placed in use or ordered. The experience gained in the successful operation of these small thin-film stores has encouraged the more ambitious construction of a large, random-access memory for a modular processing system.