John von Neumann, in his mythic and controversial First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945), deliberately used the term memory…
John von Neumann, in his mythic and controversial First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945), deliberately used the term memory organ rather than store, also in use at the time, in order to parallel biological and computing components and to emphasize the ephemeral nature of vacuum tubes.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2011. “The Enduring Ephemeral, of The Future Is a Memory.” In Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications, edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, 184-203. Berkeley: University of California Press.