[Coco] 128k Bubble Memory

[Stephen Adolph]

I can feel for you on this one.
People see the various tech bubbles and the wealth created, but rarely
see the carnage side of the tech industry.
It really sucks when your customers turn to mush under your feet...

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Dennis
Bathory-Kitsz<dennis-ix at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> At 06:38 AM 7/26/2009, you wrote:
>>
>> I'm inputting the Color Computer Magazine issues into the database, and
>> came
>> across the 128k Bubble Memory hardware project by Dennis Kitsz.  Did
>> anyone
>> on this list ever build one?
>
> As the author, I may have been the only one.
>
> What a story. The bubble memory module was discontinued by the company
> (Intel was it?) after the article went to print.
>
> Here's how it went: We had samples from the company, designed and built the
> unit, had the boards made, and had a finished and tested unit. I think it
> went to Jake Commander, who had been writing a Bubble OS for it that would
> have appeared in a later magazine. We were negotiating a price on these
> bubble memories (they were really expensive and required weird powering,
> too) and one Monday morning we called to place our order. The number was
> disconnected. The entire company division had been shut down over the
> weekend, and bubble memory manufacturing was ended.
>
> So as far as I know, my unit was the only one built -- unless other people
> had access to the discontinued bubble memory modules. We sold one circuit
> board, as I recall, and eventually refunded the purchase. We sold our small
> sample kits of bubbles and controller chips to an interested person some
> months later.
>
> And here's a coincidence -- yesterday at 3:00pm all that material went to
> the dump!
>
> Dennis
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