Memory Density
By the standards of the time, a relatively large amount of data could be stored in a small installed volume of core rope memory: 72 kilobytes per cubic foot, or roughly 2.5 megabytes per cubic meter. This was about 18-folda the amount of data per volume compared to standard read-write core memory.
| Memory technology |
Data units per cubic foot | Data units per cubic meter | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bytes | Bits | Bytes | Bits | |
| Core rope ROM | 72 KB | 576 Kbit | ~2.5 MB | ~20 Mbit |
| Magnetic core RAM | 4 KB | 32 Kbit | ~140 KB | ~1 Mbit |
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