I was today years old when I learned about a historical computing memory technology I'd never heard of before. I knew about drum memory and magnetic core memory and acoustic delay-line memory, but not this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube

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Retrieved this bad boy from a cupboard at home, for the School of Computing at Newcastle Uni's historical collection.

So I was the cool kid who bought an Oric-1 when everyone else was buying the ZX speccie. That went well...

Also pictured: Colossal cave adventure game on cassette. Now *that* was a game..

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