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Article #1242Re: Moth in relay! Urban myth?
From: br... Brian Kantor
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 14:32
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 14:32
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One day we found that our 2-kilowatt transmitter had died because a large spider had crawled into the final cavity and shorted out the high voltage. The computer controlling the transmitter had correctly shut it down, but couldn't tell us that it had a bug.... The technician's remark upon finding the carbonized spider was "no wonder it doesn't work: the chief engineer died!" - Brian
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!brian From: br...@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Moth in relay! Urban myth? Message-ID: <11524@ucsd.Edu> Date: 5 Feb 90 14:32:20 GMT References: <1990Feb4.072343.7821@agate.berkeley.edu> <V~47W$@rpi.edu> <1990Feb5.070341.18156@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <12080@csli.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: br...@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) Distribution: alt Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Lines: 8 Posted: Mon Feb 5 15:32:20 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit