[Milsurplus] Funny true story

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Wed Mar 19 12:26:55 EDT 2014


Seems very odd. Octal sockets, w/ screw terminals, in DIN rails is the
stock-in-trade of industrial controls.

-John

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> Sad.
>
> Had the winds been blowing just so the red and blue lights would have
> descended, the building evacuated, and a robot sent in to snatch the
> now-ill-fated-WMD socket, carrying it to a steel container for sanitized
> destruction.  The bits remaining would then be examined by the FBI.
> We'd have crime scene tape, news helicopters, and brainless reporters
> extracting breathless first person accounts.
>
> /k1mgy
>
> On 03/19/2014 10:55, Richard Brunner wrote:
>> A friend works for a large firm heavily into industrial control.
>> Yesterday they found an object sitting on a cubicle divider which
>> no-one could identify - an octal tube socket.
>
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