Sounds like folk etymology. Too clever, too cute. And not much light in a vacuum tube.
. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 12:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"? I thought the term debugging came from the days when the first computers were made from vacuum tubes. The tubes produced light, which in turn attracted bugs. Periodically, the computer had to be "debugged". My source was probably urban legend. --- wdonze...@gmail.com wrote: From: William Donzelli <wdonze...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:56:07 -0400 No, she did not. The term "bug", relating to flaws and errors in a circuit*, shows up a fair amount in 1930s ham radio literature, for example. * "bug" also applies to automatic Morse keys, of course. -- Will On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> wrote: > Was watching NCIS Los Angeles and the geek was showing off to the > female geek by saying Grace Hopper didn't coin the term bug, but > Thomas Edison did. (Which he probably stole from someone else, > probably Tesla, but that just me being facetious.) > > http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-history/did-y > ou-know-edison-coined-the-term-bug > > Regards, > Lindy > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN _____________________________________________________________ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
