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Article #92Re: write only memory
From: t... Tim Pointing
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 16:03
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 16:03
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I missed the original post on WOM's so I hope this hasn't already been posted
by somebody else at DCIEM.
Until a few years ago, towards the end of the fiscal year, word would
filter down from above that there was money now available and that, if
we had anything that should be ordered, now was the time to do so.
It seems that somebody at a low level had a particularly well developed
sense of humour. He/she ordered some Write-Only Memory. To the
embarrassment of several people, this requisition was approved by
this person's supervisor, the Section head and the Division head. The
Big Boss of DCIEM was the only one that caught it. Then the underlings
had some explaining to do... to originator of the order and those who
approved it!
N.B. Some of the facts may be slightly out since this all happened before
I started working here.
--
Tim Pointing, DCIEM
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!dciem!tim From: t...@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Tim Pointing) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: write only memory Message-ID: <2824@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> Date: 8 Jan 90 16:03:15 GMT References: <7296@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1989Dec16.063832.529@world.std.com> <258F0599.3945@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3630@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> <*Y'8`&@rpi.edu> <8765@samsung.samsung.com> <1877@bucket.UUCP> <1182@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Reply-To: t...@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Tim Pointing) Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine Lines: 21 Posted: Mon Jan 8 17:03:15 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit