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‘Write-Only Memory’ is a curious, but pointless concept, since the data stored there can presumably never be retrieved. Real computers do have a type of storage called ‘Read-Only Memory’, or ROM, which contains information that can never be erased or overwritten.

Write-Only memory has a real world precedence in a practical joke perpetrated by an engineer working for Signetics corporation. The joke was eventually given a wider audience in the April 1972 issue of Electronics magazine.