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-teD Original Message From: CM Poncelet Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 22:08 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"? 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. > > > >--- 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-you-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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
