Friday 02/19/99:
SILICON CREATURES GALLERY
Ever wonder what's lurking within the dark corners, nooks and crannies of your computer?
Is some gremlin responsible for all those crashes? You know, the ones that happen when you
are trying to save that critical document you've been working on so diligently for the
past three hours? We wondered too, so we took a look to see what we could find. And guess
what? When we put the computer chips under the microscope we found some very interesting
creatures hiding there.
Our search has led to a new collection of photomicrographs (photographs taken through a
microscope) featuring many of the interesting silicon creatures and other doodling
scribbled onto integrated circuits by engineers when they were designing computer chip
masks. The tiny creatures are far too small to be seen with the naked eye, so we have
provided high-magnification photomicrographs to share these mysterious wonders with our
visitors. Engineers designing modern computer chips have a very rich sense of humor as you
will discover when you visit our Silicon Creatures Gallery that we keep corralled in the
Silicon Zoo. We hope you
enjoy your adventure!
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html
Compliments of NVYMOMX2....THANK YOU!