Just some useless info, FWIW.
All this recent talk of bubble memories got me to
remembering.... A company I worked for in Buffalo NY
around 1982 was putting bubble memories into a small
diskless machine that they sold (or rented?) to golf-course
pro shops. It was called a "handicaputer" - it kept track
of golfer's scores and handicaps and such. No idea how
many were made, but my impression is not very many. But
it might be something to watch for, for anyone into bubbles.
We also had, IIRC, an SS-30 card (SWTPC I/O bus) with a
bubble memory on it, for which I hacked Flex "disk" drivers.
(Somebody else had already written the lower-level bubble
read/write code.) At one point it booted into Flex. Might
have been called "disk-bub" or "flex-bub" or something
similar. Sold only a handful though. Really cool but
probably too expensive unless you really needed bubbles for
some reason. One went to some research station in Alaska
(or Antarctica?) - they said disk drives would have frozen
up.
Bill.
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Received on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 00:41:22 BST