Have you considered RAM DISK?It makes no sense is you consider the historical context of this project. If memory were so abundant that I could build a "solid state disk" out of it, why not to employ as many chips for increasing the main memory instead?
RAM DISK appeared actually in the 80s, the microcomputers era. Heritage/1 belongs to the 60s and 70s, when 32 KB of core were a luxury for a minicomputer of its kind. Storage, however, ran in the order of tens of megabytes at that time in history; actually storage were unlimited since it consisted of mountable media such as tape. Moreover disk were also mountable at that time.
Memory, on the contrary, is always a scarce resource, and it was very scarce in the era that Heritage/1 tries to represent. In modern times, RAM DISK is perfectly possible, but that would defeat the main idea of this project in particular.
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