On This Day in Telephone History August 8TH 1969 - Bell Laboratories announced it is experimenting with magnetic "bubbles," each smaller than the diameter of a human hair, that can be moved on magnetic plates in precise patterns to store enormous bits of information to do computation or switch signals.

On This Day in Telephone History August 8TH 1969

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On This Day in Telephone History August 8TH 1969 – Bell Laboratories announced it is experimenting with Magnetic “Bubbles,” each smaller than the diameter of a human hair, that can be moved on magnetic plates in precise patterns to store enormous bits of information to do computation or switch signals.