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17 Nov 2003

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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