Amazing. I never realised it got to commercial production, just that
about 1985 it was heralded as the next amazing thing - with however many
libraries of congress per fingernail etc.
with however many libraries of congress per fingernail etc.
That's a bold claim!
I found a NASA document from 1976 that expected bubble memory to reach about a terabit per cubic meter by the year 2000. And then you need over a hundred terabits for a library of congress. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42884743.pdf
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Amazing. I never realised it got to commercial production, just that about 1985 it was heralded as the next amazing thing - with however many libraries of congress per fingernail etc.
That's a bold claim!
I found a NASA document from 1976 that expected bubble memory to reach about a terabit per cubic meter by the year 2000. And then you need over a hundred terabits for a library of congress. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42884743.pdf