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Subject:	Re: the first computer bug! - history
From:	Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:35:58 +0100
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In message <002e01c377d0$5aacc1c0$6564a8c0@WONSILTP>, Mark Wonsil
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Ed wrote:
>> we used to have a mouse that would get into the vadic modem and pee
>> all over it thus shorting out the circuit board....
>
>It wouldn't be the first time that pee was the cause of handshaking
>trouble...

Our canteen got infested - we'd ask for a hot dog with onions and all
the trimmings, but hold the mouse turd.....

Re the bug, BTW - I'm sure the story is true, but Edison is quoted as
'getting the bugs out' of his first incandescent bulbs, so the usage
wasn't exactly new....

--
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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