FLUKE?

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Mon Dec 3 13:59:55 2001

 I have a program by Charles Martin called CMFiler which I have used for
years and consider indispensable for exploring Doze machines. It is
somewhat like NC but with many more features and has worked (in a dos
window) thru all the MS upgrades(?) up to Win 98 at least.
 It would occasionally give a message "bubble-sorting files" when I accessed
a drive. Does this simply mean sequentially ordering ?

 Lawrence

> 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
>
> --
> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL



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