Write Only Memory - 1972ben!

[Palasik Sandor]

> > 1972-ben a Signetics cég április elsején publikálta a a Write-Only-
> > Memory (Csak Írható Memória) dokumentációját.

> Vazze, ki irta ezt? :-)

A mérnökök. De állítólag nem gondolták, hogy a managerek közül senki nem 
szúrja ki, hanem csak akkor bukott ki a dolog, amikor már ügyfelek is 
keresni kezdték.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_Only_Memory

"Out of frustration with the long and seemingly useless chain of approvals 
required of component specifications, during which no actual checking seemed 
to occur, an engineer at Signetics once created a specification for a 
write-only memory and included it with a bunch of other specifications to be 
approved. This inclusion came to the attention of Signetics management only 
when regular customers started calling and asking for pricing information. 
Signetics published a corrected edition of the data book and requested the 
return of the 'erroneous' ones. Later, in 1972, Signetics bought a 
double-page spread in the April issue of Electronics and used the spec as an 
April Fool's Day joke."

Palasik Sándor