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From: koko@uthub.UUCP (M. Kokodyniak)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer war stories
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 11:18:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 11:18:41 1986
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> 
> Yet another old classic war story.
> --
> 
> It seems that there was a certain university that was doing experiments in 
> behavior modification in response to brain stimulation in primates.  They had 
> this monkey with a number of electrodes embedded in it's brain that were hooked 
> up to a PDP-11.  They had several programs that would stimulate different parts 
> of the monkey's brain, and they had spent over a year training the monkey to 
> respond to certain stimuli.  Well, eventually the PDP developed problems, and 
> field service was called in.  Due to some miscommunication, the field service
> representative was not informed of the delicacy of this particular setup, and 
> the people running the experiment were not informed that field service was 
> coming to fix the machine.  The FS representative then booted up a diagnostic 
> system I/O exerciser.  After several minutes of gyrations, the monkey expired,
> it's brain fried.
> 
> The moral, of course, is "Always mount a scratch monkey"

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Sounds like something out of the movie Brainstorm.