On 18 Mar 2016 05:18:44 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Ted wrote: >Relay #70.
Was the Grace Hopper quote actually something to the effect that in the case in question it was a real bug (the moth)? Clark Morris > >-teD > Original Message >From: John Ehrman >Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 00:17 >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >Subject: Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"? > >The association of bugs with computers may go back to the Mark I (I think >it was) relay computer at Harvard. An error was traced to a moth between >two relay contacts. > >In the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA there's a copy of the >logbook page with the moth pasted in place. The display is near other >early computers like the Atanasoff=Berry machine, the Johnniac, a German >Enigma and examples of Konrad Zuse's work. If you're in Silicon Valley, I >urge you to visit; more info at computerhistory.org . > >Regards... John > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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