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Re: Computer in bug?

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From: cmp... D.S. Cartwright
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.
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From: cmp...@sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright)
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Subject: Re: Computer in bug?
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