I had a very early Apple //e (purchased 1983) and remember some funny things in the manuals. There was a glossary entry for Write-Only Memory. This contained an

I had a very early Apple //e (purchased 1983) and remember some funny things in the manuals. There was a glossary entry for Write-Only Memory. This contained an entire brief story about how it had been invented by a Prof. Farnsfarfle(?) and subsequently used to store some huge amount of surplus government data.