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Big Blue's development lab at Hursley turns 50

Tags: disk drives, r&d, ibm

By Julian Goldsmith

Published: 19 September 2008 12:42 GMT


The house's owner was a passionate supporter of the British war effort in the 1940s and bankrupted himself and his family funding it. In the late 1950s the house was put on the market and IBM stepped in to acquire it.

One of the technologies on display at the house is this TROS memory core, one of the first projects to come from Hursley after IBM bought the site. It is solid state technology, combining two layers of capacitors, resistors and transistors, all hand-wired and mounted on a solid aluminium base.

This component stored 112 bytes of data.

Photo credit: Julian Goldsmith/silicon.com


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