Re: Moth in relay! Urban myth?

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From: sa... Sam Bassett RCD
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 07:18

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	The moth-in-the-relay story was told in the first person by Grace
Murray Hopper, and the moth itself is on display in the logbook, wherever
it is kept at present.  She has told this story many times, in many
forums, including, I believe, the book "A History of Computing in the
Twentieth Century".

	The term "bug" was used before World War II for a defect or
problem in a mechanical device -- it is just that this is the first
documented _computer_ bug!


Sam'l Bassett, Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center, 
Moffett Field CA 94035 Work: (415) 694-4792;  Home: (415) 969-2644
sa...@well.sf.ca.us                     sa...@ames.arc.nasa.gov 
<Disclaimer> := 'Sterling doesn't _have_ opinions -- much less NASA!'

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