I'm not sure that's a capability specific to volatile memory, merely R/W memory....

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I'm not sure that's a capability specific to volatile memory, merely R/W memory. R/W memory already existed on prior NASA computers in the form of magnetic core RAM (as opposed to magnetic rope memory which served as ROM).