Bubble memory is a type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each storing one bit of data. Bubble memory started out as a promising technology in the 1970s, but failed commercially as hard disk performance and cost improvements in the 1980s overtook its advantages.
Read more about Bubble Memory: Prehistory: Twistor Memory, Magnetic Bubbles, Commercialization, Further Applications
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“Each swung in danger on its slender twig,
A bubble on a pipestem, growing big.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“She might have been old once and now, miraculously, young again—but with the memory of that other life intact. She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and beyond for what it was. Yet knowing, she still longed to leave this safe, sunlit place at the top of the house for the challenge there.”
—Paule Marshall (b. 1929)