On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:09:32 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
>Of course, I have no serious *intention* of making more than about a 
>dozen bytes of RAM using only NAND gates. ;-)

Surprise me :D

> But I'm aware that way back in prehistoric times, they used to do it this way.
>

Back in prehistoric days, at least when I started working in computing, RAM was
ferrite-core memory. Literally ferrite or ceramic toroids threaded with wires to
store information via the polarity of the magnetic fields.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_memory
 

>No wonder computers cost more that housing estates - they were *bigger* 
>than housing estates! :-D

It was the air conditioning that took up the room :)
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Regards
     Stephen

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