Engineering troll

[Barton Chittenden]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w&feature=youtu.be

that is all.

[Brad Luyster]

Old stuff :)  Similar: Write Only Memory- http://www2.vmi.edu/Faculty/squirejc/Research/IC_Datasheets/digital_cmos/Write%20Only%20Memory.pdf

The datasheet ended up in the Signetics data book as an April fool's joke, and they had to remove it because they started getting orders for the non-existent part.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Barton Chittenden <bart...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w&feature=youtu.be

that is all.

[Raj]

I absolutely lost it at "First-in, Never-out (FINO) Asynchronous Buffers" and "prevents the entrapment of harmful ions, but which allows the free exchange of friendly ions."  The water faucet in the block diagram was a great touch.

I think we should start a consultancy and produce datasheets like these as a tool to help businesses weed out bad engineers.  Everybody loves HR, right?

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From: Brad Luyster <bradluyster@gmail.com>
To: lvl1@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: {LVL1} Engineering troll

[2600]

Part of the gag was the number of digits in the part number. In 1972, five digits was uncommon for a real product. I first saw this published as full pages in the April 1972 "Electronics" magazine, or maybe "Electronics Design". It was the engineering library's archive copy, so I suppressed the urge to just take it home. 

The most memorable part for me was the graph at the bottom-left of the last page. The "Number of pins remaining" plotted to "Number of socket insertions". 

I guess you had to be there. 

73

[2600]

Oh, Lordy! Just took a closer look and the block diagram of the thing is totally scummed. Can't make out any detail at all. Not even the pin for the "Data Drain". 

Gotta find a readable copy of this one. Improves the humor content. 

For some of us.