It had a mere 4,096 words of memory, and its word length was 12 bits very short even by the standards of the times.
There were a thousand and twenty-four possible addresses (210 = 1,024), which meant that the Institute's machine could label, or address, a thousand and twenty-four "words" of memory.
The shapes of "Words of Memory," however, are thick and solid and might remind viewers of Abstract Expressions, especially the paintings of Motherwell and Gottlieb.
The results are abstract, but richly coded, with fractured texts, personal symbols (the shape of his childhood home in "Words of Memory") and a palette of jewel-like colors -- reds, yellows and greens -- associated with Ethiopian icon paintings.
This display was for the benefit of the people running the program and not for the machine, which in this case was a PDP-10 with a quarter of a million words of memory.
The cinephile and Gothamite strains of nostalgia converge in secondhand, word-of-mouth memories of lining up downtown on Bleecker Street or St. Marks Place, or uptown at the Thalia, to see the latest Fassbinder, the Antonioni retrospective or the early work of Jim Jarmusch.
This student says the first word of the memory verse.
After the last word of the memory verse is quoted, the next student says, "Sparkle".
He was fascinated by the city and made a huge effort to learn Basque, committing hundreds of words to memory every day.
For example, Blaisdell and co-authors reported that a mere 20,000 16-bit words of core memory was available for their programs [ 50].
