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 of ...

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 ...

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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 ...