Hackaday

Magnetic Bubble Memory Brought To Life On Heathkit

There are all kinds of technology that appear through the ages that find immediate success, promise to revolutionize the world, but fade to obscurity almost as quickly. Things like the ZIP disk, RDRAM ...
Hackaday

Magnetic Bubble Memory

Over on his blog our hacker [Scott Baker] has a Magnetic Bubble Memory Mega-Post. If you haven’t heard of magnetic bubble memory before it’s basically obsolete nonvolatile memory. Since the 1970s when ...
EDN

Bubble memory gives way to bubble logic

PORTLAND, Ore. — Bubble memory technology is back—this time in a microfluidic version for logic applications rather than the magnetic approach taken by Texas Instruments in the 1970s. Invented by ...
The New York Times

From Bubble Memory to Hot Spots and a Fly Rod

David E. Sanger, a national security correspondent, recounts his gear from the computers in use when he joined The Times in 1982 to his overloaded backpack now. Featuring David E. Sanger How do New ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Semiconductor Memory Evolution And Current Challenges

The very first all-electronic memory was the Williams-Kilburn tube, developed in 1947 at Manchester University. It used a cathode ray tube to store bits as dots on the screen’s surface. The evolution ...