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Article #1243Re: Moth in relay! Urban myth?
From: jg... John G. Hardie
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 16:54
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 16:54
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I'm told (I wasn't there) that the Bates Linear Accelerator in Middleton Mass. was brought down (yes, the entire facility) by a stray cat which managed to touch both terminals on the 10 MW (that's MEGAwatts folks) primary transformer. Supposedly it was quite a mess and took several days to get everything back up again. Anyone know the details? John -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John G. Hardie jg...@unix.cis.pitt.edu Dept. of Physics, Univ of Pittsburgh jg...@vms.cis.pitt.edu Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!jgh2 From: jg...@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John G. Hardie) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Moth in relay! Urban myth? Message-ID: <22111@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 5 Feb 90 16:54:25 GMT References: <1990Feb4.072343.7821@agate.berkeley.edu> <V~47W$@rpi.edu> <1990Feb5.070341.18156@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <12080@csli.Stanford.EDU> <11524@ucsd.Edu> Reply-To: jg...@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John G. Hardie) Distribution: alt Organization: Nuclear Physics Lab, Univ. of Pittsburgh Lines: 15 Posted: Mon Feb 5 17:54:25 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit