Re: Signetics 25120 WOM

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

Back in the 1970s, Signetics put out a joke data sheet for a
“Write-Only Memory” chip. ...

 
It was all the rage.  When I was a grad students in the 1970s some wag
put a sign over the door to the break room saying
 
   SIGWOM HQ

>
I assume the “SIG” part was a nod to the various “Special Interest Groups”
that were part of the Association for Computing Machinery, a group
responsible for several Comp Sci research periodicals, like
“Communications of the ACM” and “Journal of the ACM”.

Of course it was.

The SIGs did their own publications. As a student, I was a regular reader
of “SIGPLAN Notices”, the periodical of the SIG on Programming Languages.
It was one of the less formal ones.

I published a few notes in SIGPLAN back in the day.


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