On December 3, Allison wrote:
> It's not RAM per se.
>
> It's basically a disk like structure, the difference is rather than rotate
> the media they move the magnetic domains around. I have a few
> 128kbyte (1Mbit) bubbles I use still.
Yup, it's sequentially accessed. At least one company still sells &
supports it, though I don't know if they're actually producing it at
this point.. It's a really neat technology. It moves the magnetic
domains around "tracks" in (if memory serves) a crystalline garnet
substrate. These domains can be set to "0" or "1" and are read by
moving them past a detector.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
Received on Mon Dec 03 2001 - 10:16:19 GMT