If I open an account, do I remember a toaster?

[avram]

So I was watching an episode of Stargate SG1 a week or two back, and one of the alien characters mentioned storing something in their spaceship’s memory banks. And I realized that I’ve been working with computers professionally for like 15 years now, and I’ve got friends who’ve been doing so for multiple decades, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard that term used to describe the actual storage facility of a real computer system. It’s always hard drive or floppy or tape or disk or RAM. Was memory bank ever a real-world computing term, or was it always just something SF writers used to get around having to describe how their technology actually worked?

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[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I think it was a legit term, back in the days of ferrite core memory.