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From: olson@anchor.SGI.COM (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bubbles (was Re: Solid State Secondary Storage)
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Date: 22 Jan 89 01:04:34 GMT
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Yes, they are are still used; see the 16 Jan 89 Aviation Week
and Space Tech.  Magnesys is selling 'drives' with 720Kbyte
cartridges using bubble memory (note that the capacity is
the same as 96tpi 5 1/4" floppies).

It's going to be used by the military in a battlefield 
terminal system with a winchester disk for primary storage.

The price given was ~$700 for the drive and $500 for each
720K cartridge.
--
	Dave Olson

It's important to keep an open mind, but not so open
that your brains fall out. -- Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.