On 8 Aug 2002 at 15:30, Charles Angelich wrote: >Not sure if anyone remembers `bubble memory' but this was going to be >the replacement for hard drives at one time. They couldn't get the >manufacturing costs down low enough and apparently there were a few >potential `bugs' of some sort. Flash cards seem to be similar in >function and I do think will replace the hard drives in a few years >time if costs and max sizes continue as they have. > >Charles Angelich
Ah, bubble memory. That development showed a lot of promise... and got hyped up even more. Unfortunately, it remained expensive per bit, because the bit-cells were quite large, and its access times remained slow, even compared to the ROMs of the day. If the access times had come down, I expect that we'd be using it instead of CompactFlash today. Anthony J. Albert =========================================================== Anthony J. Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems and Software Support Specialist Postmaster Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle "I gots yer four basic food groups right here: bacon, beans, whiskey, and lard!" - Cookie, from Disney's _Atlantis_ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
