dswise@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (10/19/89)
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. Surely someone still has a copy of this taped on the wall! I need the bibliographic citation (for reference from a serious paper); please respond by Email as I am not a reqular reader of comp.lsi. [It's complicated to explain how the concept of a WOM can be useful, but it is.]
bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (10/20/89)
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..."