Drum vs. Core

[Christian Corti]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> Indeed, according to http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/650.html there 
> was 60 words of core used as a buffer between the drum and tape drives 
> to account for their different data rates, but which could also be used 
> for other stuff.

Well, then you have to count the LGP-30 as computer with core memory, too, 
because the interface to the (apparently extremly rare) magnetic tape 
drives (yes, there were tape drives for the LGP-30!) contained core memory 
as buffer. The drive would buffer the block in core so that the LGP-30 
could read it with its own speed (and vice versa).

Christian