Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: In search of knife switches & lamp receptacles
Message-ID: <1990May24.151958.25002@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8048@odin.corp.sgi.com> <240.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24 May 90 15:19:58 GMT

In article <240.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) writes:
>powered by a 6-volt battery, and we split a pencil to reveal the "lead"
>(it might have BEEN lead at that time)...

Not unless you're older than one would suspect... :-)  Pencil "lead" has
been graphite for a couple of centuries now.
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