Maybe this should be on another mailing list, but I was intrigued by Jay C. Box's reminiscences, so here we go :

1. Back in the early 70s, Conrac(?) made a monitor whose shift register memory was based on a coil of steel wire with a piezo transducer at each end.

2. another monitor had a raster character generator that you could modify by re-theading a fine copper wire thru the correct sequence of ferrite cores.

3. In the Burroughs TC500 (1968), the only memory was a hard disk. The processor was a 1-bit deal (yes, they existed!), & even the clock came off the disk!

I'm also working with 8752s.

R