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
