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Article #1433Re: Computer in bug?
From: cmp... D.S. Cartwright
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 11:28
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 11:28
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kei...@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Keith Lofstrom) writes: >In this age of implantible microelectronics, has anyone put a >COMPUTER in a BUG? That is, a programmable sensor in an insect? >( If this small computer had a defect that caused the insect to crawl >into the engine controller of a Volkswagen, causing the vehicle to >crash through a wall and smash into a large mainframe, would that be a >bug in a computer in a bug in a computer in a bug in a computer? :-) ) No, surely it would be a computer in a bug in a computer in a bug in a computer ?? If, however, we revert to the original system whereby creatures are found inside the electronics, we can thereby have a spider in the engine management system of the car which eats the component containing the creature to produce the above combination. @ Now, as they say ; }:^) @ Dave C. -- Dave Cartwright, | cmp8118@uk.ac.uea.sys <- Here School of Information Systems, | cmp8118@uk.ac.uea.cpc780 <- Somewhere else University of East Anglia, | Just 'cos I'm thick ... Norwich, ENGLAND. NR4 7TJ. | ... don't take it out on ME !!
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!sys.uea!cmp8118 From: cmp...@sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Computer in bug? Message-ID: <1310@sys.uea.ac.uk> Date: 21 Feb 90 11:28:24 GMT References: <4734@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> Organization: UEA, Norwich, UK Lines: 28 Posted: Wed Feb 21 12:28:24 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit