history of the computers
early computers used relays mechanical counters or delay lines for main memory
functions ultrasonic delay lines were serial devices which could only reproduce
data in the order it was written drum memory.could be expanded at rekatively
low cost but effcient retrieval of out of discrete transistors were used for smaller
and faster.memories such registers such registers were relatively large and
too costly to use for large amout of data generally only a few hundred bits of such could be provided