AFAIK The original Grace Hopper 'bug' was an actual bug - some kind of
moth. There could be a photo of it somewhere.
Richard Pinion wrote:
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.
--- [email protected] wrote:
From: William Donzelli <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]> 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-you-know-edison-coined-the-term-bug
Regards,
Lindy
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