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MAGNETIC BUBBLE MEMORY [7 records]

Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
OBS

(The random access memory) should be contrasted with serial memories such as disks, drums, tapes, and shift registers and including charged coupled devices(CCD) and magnetic bubble devices.... In these memories data is available essentially only in the same sequence as originally stored.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
DEF

Media from which recorded information can be erased so that the media may be reused.

OBS

Non-erasable media is media which cannot be erased easily or automatically. Examples of erasable media are magnetic tapes, disks, bubble memory, and primary memory.

Key term(s)
  • medium erasable
  • media erasable

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
DEF

Supports dont on peut effacer l'information avant de les réutiliser.

OBS

Les supports non effaçables ne peuvent être effacés rapidement ou automatiquement. Exemples de supports effaçables: bandes magnétiques, disques, mémoire à bulles et mémoire centrale.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

A magnetic storage device that uses cylindrically shaped magnetized areas in thin film that are movable, nonvolatile and changeable.

OBS

bubble memory: term standardized by CSA and ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)
DEF

Mémoire magnétique qui utilise des domaines magnétisés de forme cylindrique dans un film mince, ces domaines étant mobiles, rémanentes et modifiables.

OBS

mémoire à bulles : terme normalisé par la CSA et l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
DEF

Dispositivo de memoria de transistores que contiene áreas magnetizadas microscópicas, llamadas "burbujas" que aparecen en las capas cristalinas delgadas de ciertos materiales magnéticos, como por ejemplo, el granate.

OBS

La memoria de burbujas es capaz de almacenar grandes cantidades de datos en espacios muy pequeños, además de tener un tiempo de acceso muy rápido.

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Record 4 2001-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Measuring Equipment
  • Computer Memories
CONT

Magnetic bubble memory testers are used to examine bubble memory systems. Testers vary from unit to unit and in their ability to test memory devices of various capacities. Units can accommodate different memory architectures including serial, major/minor loop, block replicate, and even/odd configurations. They may offer capabilities for diagnostics testing(which isolates and defines design problems), device evaluation testing, and parallel functional testing. A computer may provide the central control and data collection functions for the magnetic bubble memory tester. The purpose of the loop status memory is to maintain a bit map of defective minor loops as they occur so that bubbles will be written into bad loops in later operations. This technique of maintaining minor loop status reduces test times.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de mesures (Électricité)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 5 1989-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Life Cycle (Informatics)
OBS

Originally, portable data capture devices recorded data on punched cards and, sometimes, paper tapes. Present-day devices, however, consist of either tape cassette recorders incorporating a rechargeable battery pack, or magnetic bubble storage which can record data into memory, and keyboards(mainly numeric, sometimes alphanumeric) for data entry, equipped with strip displays for data validation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cycle de vie (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 6 1989-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
CONT

Bubble memory units are only a couple of square inches in size and contain a thin film magnetic recording layer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)
CONT

Dans les mémoires à bulles (...) la surface d'enregistrement est (...) une couche aimantée continue.

Spanish

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Record 7 1985-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
CONT

Work continued on the development of a magnetic bubble memory recorder for space(satellite and Spacelab) applications. The design was completed and the first 64-Kbit chips and the prototype of the magnetic module containing eight chips were tested.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

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