On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Joe wrote:
> They were also used in some of their MDSs. It was also optional in the
> iPDSs. In it the bubble usually contained the operating system and
> developement software but it acted as a disk drive so you could store
> anything in it that you wanted to.
The Sharp PC-5000 uses bubble memory carthridges as "disk drives". It
runs MS-DOS from the bubble memory. Another computer that uses bubble
memory is the Teleram 3000 (very obscure).
> FWIW I used to have a bubble memory card for the PC. It came with a
> collection of bubble memory manuals, data sheets and other docs and some
> developement software. I THINK it was put out by Intel but it's been a long
> time since I've seen it.
That sounds really cool. Along with several dozen bubble memory modules
plus a bunch of bubble memory boards and several computers that use bubble
memory, I have a book on using bubble memory and a TI datasheet on their
bubble memory product.
Bubble memory is cool.
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