Bubble Memory

From: John Higginbotham <higginbo_at_netpath.net>
Date: Wed Jan 14 10:21:35 1998

I did find a description of bubble memory:

A type of non-volatile memory composed of a thin layer of material that can
be easily magnetized in only one direction. When a magnetic field is
applied to circular area of this substance that is not magnetized in the
same direction, the area is reduced to a smaller circle, or bubble.

 It was once widely believed that bubble memory would become one of the
leading memory technologies, but these promises have not been fulfilled.
Other non-volatile memory types, such as EEPROM, are both faster and less
expensive than bubble memory.
- John Higginbotham
- limbo.netpath.net
Received on Wed Jan 14 1998 - 10:21:35 GMT