[48256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Sat May 25 03:04:02 2002
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 04:02:00 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <641349.1022215827@morisot.titania.net> from "Joseph T. Klein" at May 24, 2002 04:50:27 AM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Joseph T. Klein said:
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> Didn't National Semiconductor have a spec sheet for write only memory
> back in the late 70s or early 80s?
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> I think they developed it for the NSA.
Not exactly. As I recall, National or maybe Signetics had a run
of FUBAR chips. So they gave them xxxNFG part numbers, and had a
data sheet made for "Write Only Memory". The AN showed it being
used as an electronic bitbucket, etc.
This was in 1971 or 72. If you ordered the data sheet/sample;
you likely also got a set of Groucho glasses so "you can sneak
into the office even if your colleagues find out"....
A friend has the data sheet, and maybe still the glasses/nose.
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