Re: Computer in bug?

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From: zb... Ben Cranston
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1990 23:14

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In article <47...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> kei...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM 
(Keith Lofstrom) writes:

> Okay, we've read lots of stories about bugs in computers.
> In this age of implantible microelectronics, has anyone put a
> COMPUTER in a BUG?   That is, a programmable sensor in an insect?

There was a photomicrograph in Science News last year of a honeybee with
a silicon chip glued to its back.  The chip was an infrared transponder that
somehow enabled scientists to study its movements.  The caption read
"This bee has a chip on its shoulder!".

-- 
Sig     DS.L    ('ZBen')       ; Ben Cranston <zb...@Trantor.UMD.EDU>
* Network Infrastructures Group, Computer Science Center
* University of Maryland at College Park
* of Ulm

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From: zb...@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
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Subject: Re: Computer in bug?
Summary: Bee with chip on shoulder
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Date: 19 Feb 90 23:14:01 GMT
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