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To: Red Badger

Remember the old Intel one “megabit” magnetic bubble memory? I worked on some old machine tools that had those, along with the old DEC 16bit microprocessors. State of the art, over 30 years ago.


5 posted on 09/03/2014 11:55:45 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: factoryrat

Yes, and they took 20 amps at 5V to run...............


6 posted on 09/03/2014 11:57:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: factoryrat

Glad someone else remembered bubble memory.


14 posted on 09/03/2014 1:12:20 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
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To: factoryrat

“State of the art, over 30 years ago”

Basically, the blink of an eye. The exponential pace of technological development is stunning.

6,000 years from the new stone age to the bronze age

2,000 years from the bronze age to the iron age

2,000 years from the iron age to the modern steel age

30 years from the transistor until 30 years ago

All that has been done in the last 30 years!


16 posted on 09/03/2014 2:18:09 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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