Re: I was just musing the other day that M$ might do this and low and behold!
How about mercury delay line memories, as used on UK's MOSAIC computer? (which my father-in-law Bill Chandler designed and built with Allen Coombs after Colossus). Five tons of mercury in a hundred steel tubes, kept temperature stable to better than one degree...
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