[antihero]

Connect ethernet cables in a loop, keep sending data back and forth "around" the loop. Data is stored in cables.

I think this was from an old BOFH.

[voltagex_]

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:786NsZY... and https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

OT: Let archive.org save your pages, people!

[nosuchthing]

Apollo 11 used Rope Memory on its voyage to the moon. [1] [2]

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8148730.stm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

[joezydeco]

Mercury delay lines always fascinated me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory#Mercury_delay...