Do you know the two computer geniuses who invented the world’s first RAM, which could store only 128 bytes, in the late 1947–1948 period?
They were Frederic C. Williams and Tom Kilburn, pioneers in computer science at the University of Manchester, England. Together, they developed a revolutionary memory system known as the Williams-Kilburn tube, which used cathode-ray tubes (CRT) to store binary data as electrostatic charges.
This groundbreaking invention was first successfully demonstrated on June 21, 1948, in a machine called the Manchester Baby considered the world's first stored-program computer. Though it could store only 1,024 bits (or 128 bytes) of data, it laid the foundation for modern RAM technology and changed the future of computing forever.
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