https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#/media/File:First_Computer_Bug,_1945.jpg
On 30/06/2023 23:05, Keith N. McKenna wrote:
I came across this bit of trivia on a news group I follow:
PS --- don't you love the term "bug". Where I used to work, they had
the late Grace Murray Hopper in to
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:50:05 -0700
Dave Fisher wrote:
> When I was a child I asked my father “why?”and he told me that the bug was a
> cockroach flipping a bit in core memory - which was a grid of wires where
> each bit was a little magnetic donut.
Ah! core memory, where each memory cell was
When I was a child I asked my father “why?”and he told me that the bug was a
cockroach flipping a bit in core memory - which was a grid of wires where each
bit was a little magnetic donut.
Thanks!
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> On Jun 30, 2023, at 6:36 AM, Keith N. McKenna
> wrote:
>
> I came
I came across this bit of trivia on a news group I follow:
PS --- don't you love the term "bug". Where I used to work, they had the
late Grace Murray Hopper in to give us a talk every few years. One of
her anecdotes of the early days was how the term came about. One time a
"down" was caused
