D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (D.C. Halliday) (08/30/90)
In article <4c7e74bb.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) writes: >In article <KENTD.90Aug28084700@zappa.FtCollins.NCR.com> kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent.Dalton) writes: >>> The 410 is a WRITE ONLY device... >> >>You are wrong. It can be read and written to. > >Sayeth Foghorn Leghorn: "Thass a joke, son!" Actually, I think the 410 >qualified as the first "write once, read-many" device, as in, "read many >times to (maybe, eventually) retrieve what you wrote once." > >> It'd be worthless otherwise! > >It WAS all but worthless. Our electonics department here invented the worlds first WOM (Write only memory.) Got all the way to manufacture then at testing someone noticed they had forgot to connect the readlines on the silicon design. Now thats a write only device that was truly pointless. Perhaps we are loosing the ...tec side of this disscussion. Dave Halliday (D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk)