Lot of 6 Z-89s, 2 VT100s, VT180, other terminals, DECfloppy drives availa...

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Mon Nov 17 17:29:13 2003

>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
>
>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.

 It is kind of like moving core memory. Actually, it takes
quite a bit of power to run. I'd say it was hot.
Dwight
Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 17:29:13 GMT