Beware of April 1!

Joachim Durchholz joachim.durchholz at munich.netsurf.de
Wed Mar 17 06:57:53 UTC 1999


"R. A. Harmon" wrote:
> 
> I particularly liked BYTE magazine's product announcement of Write
> Only Memory (WOM).

Ah, that reminds me of a WOM published by the German elrad (?) magazin
years ago. That was a real beauty, complete with do-it-yourself
instructions and a wiring plan. It went approximately as follows:

         --->|--+
                |
         --->|--+
                |
         --->|--+
                |
         --->|--+   100 mF
                |   | |
Data bus --->|--+---| |---+
                |   | |   |
         --->|--+         |
                |         |
         --->|--+       ----- (Grounding)
                |        ---
         --->|--+         -

With instructions how to empty the condensator whenever it got full...

(Yes, that was in the olde times when people built their own computers.)

Regards,
Joachim
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