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    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to richard smice on Fri Sep 16 14:51:05 2022
    I remember in the late 80's the stories on bubble memory. Lots of work
    weaving those cores on the wire grid.

    Saw something on flea-buy with bubble memory, not sure if it was related
    to PS/2s or not.

    richard smice wrote:
    Back then there was bubble memory.. I have had grid computers that used bubble memory.

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Fri Sep 16 14:56:33 2022
    http://www.dvorak.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-bubble-memory/

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    I remember in the late 80's the stories on bubble memory. Lots of work weaving those cores on the wire grid.

    Saw something on flea-buy with bubble memory, not sure if it was related
    to PS/2s or not.

    richard smice wrote:
    Back then there was bubble memory..  I have had grid computers that
    used bubble memory.

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Fri Sep 16 15:07:30 2022
    https://web.archive.org/web/19981203151937/http://www.memtech.com/bubbles.htm

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    http://www.dvorak.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-bubble-memory/

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    I remember in the late 80's the stories on bubble memory. Lots of work
    weaving those cores on the wire grid.

    Saw something on flea-buy with bubble memory, not sure if it was
    related to PS/2s or not.

    richard smice wrote:
    Back then there was bubble memory..  I have had grid computers that
    used bubble memory.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 17 18:05:04 2022
    On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:56:33 -0500, Louis Ohland <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    http://www.dvorak.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-bubble-memory/

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    I remember in the late 80's the stories on bubble memory. Lots of work
    weaving those cores on the wire grid.

    Saw something on flea-buy with bubble memory, not sure if it was related
    to PS/2s or not.

    richard smice wrote:
    Back then there was bubble memory..  I have had grid computers that
    used bubble memory.

    The short answer is Bi-Polar, DRAM and other silicon technologies
    pushed it off the board. When coupled with better performing disk
    drives these volatile memory solutions were superior to just about
    anything else. Flash is the main non-vilatile solution and it has it's drawbacks, like limited write cycles. That is getting better tho.

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