@kenshirriff It's interesting that it's a modern tech....

@kenshirriff It's interesting that it's a modern tech. It feels like one of those concepts that would have been commercialized in the 60s and now be out of fashion.

Abbreviating lead as P seems a bit like taking the biss.

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Ken Shirriff

@wikkit Ferroelectric RAM dates back to the early 1950s, strangely enough. This photo from Scientific American, 1955, shows a 256-bit memory constructed by Bell Labs.

Abbreviating lead as P kind of makes sense since lead is Pb; all three elements lose their second letter in PZT. Oxygen got dropped entirely from the abbreviation.

A black-and-white photo of a ferroelectric memory. It consists of a tiny square with a 16 by 16 grid of wires on it, connected to 32 much larger pins.

23 September at 19:13 | Open on oldbytes.space

Ben Brockert

@kenshirriff I read the wikipedia article about the inventor, he seemed super bright and I have to wonder what he would have done with the second half of his life.

23 September at 19:16 | Open on mastodon.social

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