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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:31:52 +0100
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, Rich wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:54:05 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>
>>>    Ummmmm ... I just TRIED with the "Bit-Slice" topic.
>>>    Jumped IMMEDIATELY back to 'non-OS/Computer stuff'
>>
>> How about that bubble memory?
>
> What I recall was all the hype about how bubble memory was going to
> surpass everything else and the shift was "just around the corner".
>
> Thirty years later and few even remember "bubble memoriess" were ever a
> thing.
>

Reminds me of HP:s "the machine" that imploded spectacularly! An amazing 
example of what marketing can do, when disconnected from engineering! ;)