Old RPN w/ discrete components and acoustic memory

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(03-06-2020 01:50 AM)cruff Wrote:  If you've ever read a description of how the magnetic bubble memory operated, the design is similar in that the contents of the loop need to be regenerated continuously. At the point (in time) there a specific data bit falls off the end is where you read the value or write a new value.

So that's what the fan is for? To blow all of those bits that fell off the end out of the machine?