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- From: wellison@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Fry the Monkey
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.154422.41939@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 15:44:22 CDT
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- I had heard this story years ago when I worked for DEC as a field engineer. I
- don't know if I believe it or not, but here goes.
-
- It seems that a FE in Atlanta, Ga. was working on a PDP-11/34 that was used in
- controlled experments on the brain stimulus of live monkeys. The 11/34 was
- hooked up to a DAC setup that was hooked into a interface that was wired to a
- monkey's skull. So as the story goes, the customer brought the system down and
- gave it to the FE to do a PM on and run diagnostics. So he fires up DEC-X and
- the diagnostics run the DAC's from minumim to maximum voltage, which fried the
- monkey's brain. Now I can see a monkey bouncing off the side of the cage
- because a diagnostic cranked the voltage up ! ! Like I said, I don't know if I
- believe this story, but knowing some of the FE's, I wouldn't put it past them
- either ;-) Any old time DEC FE's out there that have heard this story ?
-
- -=-=- Wes =-=-=
-