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Mechanical (acoustic) Data storage

Postby Robonz » Fri Dec 01, 2017 7:32 pm

I found this video fascinating. It was just released today. Its bound to get all you mechanical TV buffs frothing haha


youtu.be/2BIx2x-Q2fE

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Re: Mechanical (acoustic) Data storage

Postby Dave Moll » Sat Dec 02, 2017 10:28 pm

I just loved his enthusiasm, as well as the ingenuity of using a length of wire as an acoustic delay line for storage purposes.

The opening shot was a bit of nostalgia as well, when he showed an Original-Odhner mechanical calculator, identical to the one one I have sitting on a bookcase as an example of the calculators we used at school around the turn of 1970.
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Re: Mechanical (acoustic) Data storage

Postby ppppenguin » Tue Dec 05, 2017 2:06 am

Delay line memory goes back a lot further:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory

For us TV types, the use of acoustic delay lines is historically commonplace, though for analogue, not digital storage. From the 1 line delay in a PAL decoder to the massive 3.2ms (MILLI second) polygonal prism delays used in the BBC's world first 525<>625 standards converter.
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