Talk:Bubble memory
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I seem to remember that bubble memory may have been used in some space probes. True? Tempshill 20:51, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] CCDs
the technology may be dead, but did it spawn Charged coupled devices? formally known as charged bubble devices? Charge-coupled_device#History - this need to be checked out by a self proclamed expert. mastodon 22:44, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] CCDs and Magnetic Bubbles
Magnetic Bubble Memories competed with CCD memories but did not spawn them. Both are serial-access (vs. Random-Access) memory approaches, but CCDs were silicon-based, like RAMs, whereas Magnetic Bubbles used an entirely different class of materials such as magnetic garnets. Both approaches lost out to the much more entrenched and well-supported RAM technology. But CCDs went on to have tremendous success in digital cameras. User:DrBubble
[edit] Magnetic Bubbles in Space?
In 1971 IBM delivered a small magnetic bubble memory chip to NASA as a prototype replacement for space-borne tape recorders, but it never went into space and I'm not aware of any bubble memories that did.--DrBubble 04:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)DrBubble
[edit] Possible Error
In the article, it said that Konami's Bubble System is Z80 based. If I'm not mistaken, the board used a Motorola 68000 and used the Z80 as a sound controller. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.41.51.46 (talk) 14:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Old image
The image removed before (09:09, 2 June 2006 OrphanBot (Talk | contribs) (Removing image with no source information. Such images that are older than seven days may be deleted at any time.)) is from my website: [1] and can be used without restriction. I think it is better than the current image.
The image appears also at [2] (without permission, btw).
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[edit] Illustrations available to explain how bubble memory works
Hi, I'm Peo from danish Wikipedia. I have just uploaded a series of computer rendered images to Commons which explain in detail how bubble memory works. Check it out here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.255.89.142 (talk) 00:10, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Connexions to CCD:s
This article is too market-"failure" oriented! I've gotten the impression that it was partially (at the least) a research base for the further devl of CCD-chips, which emotionally instead would make Bubble memory a great success!!! (note my very-very emotional exclamation marks, also note the bold text). Market is just the surface of the western world.
Now to be a little more neutrally minded: the article concentrates too much on Bobeck himself, and too little on the influence of Bobeck on his colleagues, too little on the local culture of inventions that emerged around Bobeck and colleagues at Bell Labs. This local culture makes Bubble memory a major research acheivement, and an inspiration source for at least CCD:s possibly more. Said: Rursus ☻ 10:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
