DoN. Nichols wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:

This was before bubble memory came (and went). :-) The simulator
was for the LTV A7-A -- a carrier based light attack aircraft.

That was the only instance I heard of bubble memory to this day. It
didn't exist in the real world.

I actually *had* a bubble memory for a while. I picked it up at
a hamfest, planning to find some use for it -- but before that happened,
I encountered someone desperately looking for one of the same type to
repair something -- so I sold it.

I had read about it before, and thought that it sounded
interesting.


We had a Texas Instruments IBM clone with bubble memory for billing
at the Cincinnati, Ohio 'United Video' CATV front office. It was
supplied by the data processing supplier. More than once, it was dead
when we started the day's business. Their service tech would have to
come out, and reload the operating system into the bubble memory, so I
have no love for the stuff. That replaced an older, NCR terminal with a
tape drive where the payments were entered, and transmitted at the end
of the day.


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Never **** off an Engineer!

They don't get mad.

They don't get even.

They go for over unity! ;-)