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Early computers remembered data with echoes in mercury
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Early radar and computing systems lacked RAM, so they stored data by turning electrical pulses into sound waves and firing them down a long tube filled with liquid mercury. The sound would take a fraction of a second to reach the other side, acting as a bizarre form of temporary physical storage. We literally used echoing shouts in toxic metal to remember numbers.
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