We are always fascinated by bubble memory. In the late 1970s, this was the “Next Big Thing” that, as you may have guessed, was, in fact, not the next big thing at all. But there were a number ...

Going even further back in time [smbaker] is taking a look a bubble memory, a technology that was so fast and cost-effective for its time that it could have been used as “universal” memory ...

IBM has a new non-volatile memory called racetrack memory. To those of us old enough, it sounds just like bubble memory, which they used back in the 1980s. The term I remember about bubble memory was ...

When we gave up on bubble memory computers and moved to the first laptops, I sent a note to New York asking what to do with these dinosaurs. The answer I got back was: Your office looks out over ...

We cannot say which of these new memory technologies will emerge as practical solutions, but we are confident that not all will. Remember, at one time magnetic bubble memory was expected to be the ...

An early non-volatile magnetic storage device. Developed by Bell Labs researcher Andrew Bobeck in the 1970s, bubble memory was about as fast as a slow hard disk but it held its content without power.