Friday Fun: What’s All This Prank Stuff, Anyhow?

http://www.electronicdesign.com/analog/what-s-all-prank-stuff-anyhow
Who says engineers don’t have a sense of humor? Remember the WOM, inspired partly by the Umac 606 phantasatron? The DEAD diode?
Many of the early analog electronic greats were inveterate pranksters – and sometimes the prank made the papers and history. This article tells the story of some famous electronics design pranks.