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Heh, as a wet behind the ears engineer I worked on the first computer for IBM that switched late in the design from core to solid state. Saw lots of higher density versions of what he is holding in that video.

Back then our field engineers used to fly with small stacks of these for field replacement in the passenger area of planes. They were called "boms" until some passengers freaked out at overheard conversations. :-)

That's not a chip.

You could say it's 4096 1-bit chips wired together.

I'd suggest not. These are not semiconductors. They are tiny toroid ferrite cores with two windings around each--one for reading and one for writing.

Of course you probably wouldn't get toroids when chipping from ferrite. On the other hand you wouldn't get semiconductors when chipping from silicon either.

I was annoyed that they called parity parody in the subtitles.

I was also annoyed that whenever I see subtitles I must read them as I watch the video.

But does put things in perspective doesnt it?

World's First RAM Chip [video]