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What was the first computer to use core memory?

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The basic concept of a memory core is as old as ENIAC, but was not developed into anything like the modern memory core until it was added to the Whirlwind I in 1953. The Whirlwind was designed in the late 1940s as a flight simulator, but it was too slow. This is because the only types of memory large enough (2 kilobytes) at the time were Mercury delay and electrostatic storage, the former being slower and the latter being too unreliable.

The designers eventually, after years of delay, used a combination of published papers and new magnetic materials to produce a basic memory core.

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