Talk:Williams tube

Needs correcting, unsure how
"This worked because the negative halo around the second dot would will in the positive center of the first dot" - did the author mean "fill" or "well" ?

Highest factor of 2^18? Highly unlikely
I seriously doubt Tom Kilburn wrote a 17-line program to calculate the highest factor of 218. Anyone who had access to that computer would probably have known that to be 2.

218 + 1 and 218 - 1 are more likely candidates, with 218 - 1 a bit more likely even though it equals (29 + 1)(29 - 1). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.157.34.130 (talk) 21:29, 14 May 2011 (UTC)


 * The Manchester Science and Industry Museum, which houses the Baby replica, says of the 17-instruction program that first ran successfully on 21 June 1948 "By August, Baby was successfully running the program with numbers as high as 2 to the power 18" (see ). --TedColes (talk) 08:41, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

price
Any idea how much these things cost? Gah4 (talk) 23:25, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

First "random access digital memory"
This article indicates that Williams tube was the first random access digital memory... However the dates of development and the dates of the patents in the article are LATER than the development and patent dates on Wikipedia's "core memory" article. By the dates in the articles alone, one would assume the claim that Williams tubes came "first". This claim of being first might be true, but I feel it needs a bit more explanation in order that the articles don't contradict each other. 216.164.226.167 (talk) 13:01, 2 November 2023 (UTC)