Re: Myth in relay! Urban moth?

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From: j... Phil Draughon
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 23:24

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In article <37...@accuvax.nwu.edu>, My boss SADO...@STAFF.ACNS.NWU.EDU
(George Sadowsky) writes:
> I have heard Grace Hopper tell this story several times of a moth getting 
> into a machine.  As I recall, she was one of the people who found the moth 
> and put it in the log book.  The machine was one of the the early 
> computers at the Aiken Computation Lab at Harvard, either the Mark I or 
> the Mark IV, I think.

I've heard the same story from her when she gave a talk at Ft. Gordon, GA.

Actually, she didn't claim to be one of the people who found the ``bug''
but rather she tells the story of someone else doing it.

This story is truly folklore:  While an undergrad, my advisor had
occasion to actually view the particular log book, which was to the Mark
IV I think.  He says that there is no such entry regarding a moth being
stuck in a relay.

> George Sadowsky
> Academic Computing and Network Services
> Northwestern University
> (708) 491-4080
> SADO...@STAFF.ACNS.NWU.EDU

Do I know you from somewhere?

Phil Draughon
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
(708) 491-4070
j...@acns.nwu.edu

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Subject: Re: Myth in relay! Urban moth?
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