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JJKizak wrote on 4/3/2008, 10:25 AM
Oh geez, you fooled me.
JJK
johnmeyer wrote on 4/3/2008, 4:34 PM
Reminds me of the April 1 cover back around 1975, in Electronics magazine about the new "write only" memory.
apit34356 wrote on 4/3/2008, 5:41 PM
"the new "write only" memory." isn't that the new MS technology just patented called Windows 7 or I'm not VISTA OS ;-)
LarryP wrote on 4/4/2008, 6:15 AM
1972. Google: Signetics 25120

To this day I'm sorry I didn't cut that page out and save it.

Larry
johnmeyer wrote on 4/4/2008, 7:41 AM
I think they (Signetics) ran it for several years (around April 1, of course) after that.
Former user wrote on 4/4/2008, 8:01 AM
http://academics.vmi.edu/ee_js/Research/IC_Datasheets/digital_cmos/Write%20Only%20Memory.pdf
johnmeyer wrote on 4/4/2008, 9:16 AM
Dave, that datasheet is a scream! Even the footnotes are funny. The main specs make a sly reference to device construction being "more or less S.O.S." referring to Silicon On Sapphire. This, however, is footnoted, and the footnote states:

S.O.S. copyrighted U.S. Army commissary 1940.

Very nice.
Former user wrote on 4/4/2008, 9:58 AM
A lot of very subtle, funny stuff.

The latex protection is interesting. :)

Dave T2
bStro wrote on 4/4/2008, 10:53 AM
FYI, ThinkGeek's newsletter for April 1 had several awesome "new products," though the rest aren't particularly video-related. (The NSA t-shirt is for real.)

Rob
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/4/2008, 10:54 AM
my 4 favorite attributes:

# Uses electricity
# Has a manual
# Something else
# Frakkin' sweet remote

Dave