gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) (07/01/88)
In article <4140@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> max@trinity.UUCP (Max Hauser) writes: |>(The original WOM data sheet was nearer twenty "April firsts ago" |>and therefore antedates some readers of this message! Intel may, |>of course, have copied it since. Old farts take note: who remembers |>the part number?) |>Max Hauser / max@eros.berkeley.edu / ...{!decvax}!ucbvax!eros!max It was the Signetics 25120, fully-encoded 9046 x N, Random Access Write-only-memory. I first saw this in an old April, 1973 edition of _Radio_Electronics_ magazine in the New Products section. At the time, I was young and naive and thought it was a real chip #-) !! My photocopy of the data sheet is pretty bad, but it seems that the copyright date is 1972. I am cross-posting this to sci.electronics and directing followups to that group since I'm sure that others have fun things to add to this (see also, EDN, April 3, 1986, "Single-board nuclear reactor supplies power for 12 years". +------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | Gil Kloepfer, Jr. | Net-Address: | | ICUS Software Systems | {boulder,talcott}!icus!limbic!gil | | P.O. Box 1 | Voice-net: (516) 968-6860 | | Islip Terrace, New York 11752 | Othernet: gil@limbic.UUCP | +------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+