Re: Signetics 25120 WOM

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

Back in the 1970s, Signetics put out a joke data sheet for a “Write-Only
Memory” chip. Basically any data you sent to it would be simply thrown
away, and attempts to read from the chip would never return anything. They
were surprised to get a few serious queries from prospective customers
wanting to make use of this component.

i have some vague memory from the period using it (or something similar)
for optimal compression

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