Insect Conductivity

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Jul 26 18:16:52 2004

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, John Lawson wrote:

> Attracted by something, a stream of medium-sized red ants were ascending
> the power cord and swarming into the fan grilles on the power supply -
> turning it on had blown sufficient quantities of them into the HV side to
> cause hymenopterous formicidae ionization and subsequent zapping of
> circuits not engineered to tolerate 220V 50Htz - namely the damn
> power-contoller / standby / 'sleep' chips...

What stupid fucking creatures. Good thing too. If they actually had any
sort of intelligence they could take over the world.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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