| Subject | OT - FYI, the origin of the expression "bugs" |
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| Author | "René J. Belland" |
| Post date | 2001-01-15T04:12:48Z |
My daughter passed on this tidbit on the origin of the expression "computer
bugs".
On finding a moth in an experimental computer at Harvard in 1945,Grace
Murray Hopper said, "... when anything went wrong with a computer, we said
it had bugs in it".
Cheers,
René
bugs".
On finding a moth in an experimental computer at Harvard in 1945,Grace
Murray Hopper said, "... when anything went wrong with a computer, we said
it had bugs in it".
Cheers,
René