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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi
Subject: Re: WOM reference needed
Message-ID: <4586@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 19 Oct 89 23:43:17 GMT
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Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <26600002@iuvax> dswise@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>Serious request for a frivolous article:
>
>Several years ago, in an April Fool's issue of some digital design mag
>was a one-page product announcement for a WOM----a write-only-memory.
>Included a picture of a DIP, gave pin assignments, signal levels, timings, etc.
>Also suggested that a block of clear white pine would suffice.
[...]

Signetics TTL catalogs, vintage '76-79 or thereabouts, include a
description of just such a beastie.  One of the features of the logic
diagram was a faucet, ostensibly to drain data into a bitbucket if
the WOM got too full...

				--Blair
				  "Now it takes twelve processors
				   and a series of impossibilities
				   in the Northeast power grid..."