bubble memory

noun

: a computer memory that uses magnetic bubbles to store information

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People did not need to understand bubble memory or VoIP architecture to use a telephone. —

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026 Technologies like bubble memory were briefly popular in the 1970s and 1980s. —

PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025

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1969, in the meaning defined above

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“Bubble memory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bubble%20memory. Accessed 16 May. 2026.

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