At 09:12 PM 14-01-01 -0700, you wrote:

>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

I believe Grace really did find bugs. They had a problem which turned out
to be a moth chrysalis causing a short circuit somewhere in the
equipment. When they removed the chrysalis, the crystals sparked and they
were back in business!

My father has a copy of "Popular Mechanics" from those times, reporting
this event.

H.


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