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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Signetics 25120 WOM
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:40:27 -0000 (UTC)
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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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