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Grace Hopper, USN. It was actually a moth that got caught between the contacts of relay #70 on panel F in an electromechanical computer at Harvard and got beaten to death. She found it taped it into the logbook with the problem description written by the technicians who had found and fixed the problem the night before. She added to their description "First actual case of bug being found.", but she was not the one that actually found it in the machine.
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∙ 12y agoThe first bug was literally a bug. A moth got caught in a vacuum tube of the first computer, causing the inventors to have to take apart the whole machine to find the problem. This was at Havard in 1947.
The term "bug" had been in use for any malfunction or error of a machine long before electronic digital computers existed.
Its first use referring to a computer problem was on the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer, when a moth got smashed inside the contacts of a relay causing a failure. When the failure was located and the moth removed from the relay, the operator on that shift taped it to the logbook below the entry on the failure and labeled it First Computer Bug. That morning Grace Murray Hopper came on duty and read the logbook and thought it was a great story to tell every time she spoke somewhere. The first computer bug wasn't even in an electronic computer, the Harvard Mark II was electromechanical.
The machine did NOT have to be completely taken apart, only the one relay with the moth trapped in it needed to be adjusted and cleaned after removing the dead moth.
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∙ 6y agoThe first explicitly identified computer bug was a moth, smashed to death in a relay on the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer.
The first bug was a moth found in the Mark II computer by Grace Murry Hopper in 1947 after WWII Am employee left a door open long enough for a fly to fly into the main frame of the computer to cause it to crash.
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∙ 11y agoA technician working on the Harvard Mark II relay based computer, the bug was a moth that had been smashed in the contacts of one of the machine's relays causing it to fail. He taped it in the logbook next to the description of the failure. Grace Hopper found it the next morning and decided it would be a neat story to tell.
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∙ 11y agoThe very first "bug" wasn't a computer bug as we know today
It was a butterfly trapped inside the tower, hence the term "bug"
The first documented "bug" in a computer was a badly hammered moth caught in the relay contacts of the electromechanical Harvard Mark II computer. It had gotten into the relay and was pounded to death as the contacts kept trying to close for hours as the engineers tried to locate the problem. It was immediately taped in to the logbook and is still there.
Unfortunately the term "bug" for a technical problem does not originate here, it has been traced back to the 1870s and it is unknown if any actual insects were involved there.
Viruses are a totally different issue, they are self replicating programs deliberately written by a person, usually to do harm. I believe the first ones appeared shortly after the IBM PC, on IBM PCs. These spread on floppy disk boot sectors.
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∙ 11y agoYes and no. A 'bug' is defined as a type of insect that has a set of hard wing covers. One example is the ladybug. So, "No".
In 1947, the Harvard Mark II computer experienced a problem when a moth (which is not a 'bug') got into a mechanical relay and was squashed in it. So, "Yes".
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Who repaired the first computer?
The person who made it. It was actually a team of people. The term 'computer bug' was a result of the Navy Watch Officer finding a moth in between two of the computer relay contacts. Grace Hopper removed the moth and pasted it into the log book.
Was the first computer bug a real insect?
The first recorded computer bug was indeed an insect, a moth smashed in the contacts of a relay of the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer. It caused a hardware malfunction not a software problem though. There were certainly many hardware & software problems before it though!!
Who first used the term bug in computer programming and where did this occur?
moth in computer in 1952The term "bug" had been in use for any malfunction or error of a machine long before electronic digital computers existed.Its first use referring to a computer problem was on the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer in 1947, when a moth got smashed inside the contacts of a relay causing a failure. When the failure was located and the moth removed from the relay, the operator on that shift taped it to the logbook below the entry on the failure and labeled it First Computer Bug. That morning Grace Murray Hopper came on duty and read the logbook and thought it was a great story to tell every time she spoke somewhere. The first computer bug wasn't even in an electronic computer, the Harvard Mark II was electromechanical.
Where did the name computer bug come from?
that someone found a mouth on the fan and thts where they got the name fromThe term "bug" had been in use for any malfunction or error of a machine long before electronic digital computers existed.Its first use referring to a computer problem was on the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer, when a moth got smashed inside the contacts of a relay causing a failure. When the failure was located and the moth removed from the relay, the operator on that shift taped it to the logbook below the entry on the failure and labeled it First Computer Bug. That morning Grace Murray Hopper came on duty and read the logbook and thought it was a great story to tell every time she spoke somewhere. The first computer bug wasn't even in an electronic computer, the Harvard Mark II was electromechanical & it was not a softwareproblem but a hardware problem.
Where did the term debugging the computer come from?
It came from Grace Murray Hopper's report of finding an actual bug--a moth--inside a computer and removing it. Ms. Hopper may have indeed been the first person to "debug" a computer, however, she did not coin the phrase "debugging". Radio repairmen for a couple of decades before WWII were "debugging" radios. The term is mentioned in at least two different articles in the "Radio News" magazine from the late 1930's. The articles referred de-bugging as having to clean out bug carcasses before any repairs or even a diagnosis could be attempted...
What is first computer bug?
The word "bug" in computer terminology refers to an unexpected glitch that a program may execute by accident. The first computer bug was an actual bug! I forget how the story goes, but one day someone was opening up their computer to fix it because something was wrong with it, and they found a dead moth inside!
Who was the first person to fly the June Bug?
The wright brothers
Who repaired the first computer?
The person who made it. It was actually a team of people. The term 'computer bug' was a result of the Navy Watch Officer finding a moth in between two of the computer relay contacts. Grace Hopper removed the moth and pasted it into the log book.
Who discover the VW bug?
It was originally developed by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche.
Was the first computer bug a real insect?
The first recorded computer bug was indeed an insect, a moth smashed in the contacts of a relay of the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer. It caused a hardware malfunction not a software problem though. There were certainly many hardware & software problems before it though!!
What is a computer bug?
any problem in the computer's hardware or software..
Who first used the term bug in computer programming and where did this occur?
moth in computer in 1952The term "bug" had been in use for any malfunction or error of a machine long before electronic digital computers existed.Its first use referring to a computer problem was on the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer in 1947, when a moth got smashed inside the contacts of a relay causing a failure. When the failure was located and the moth removed from the relay, the operator on that shift taped it to the logbook below the entry on the failure and labeled it First Computer Bug. That morning Grace Murray Hopper came on duty and read the logbook and thought it was a great story to tell every time she spoke somewhere. The first computer bug wasn't even in an electronic computer, the Harvard Mark II was electromechanical.
What does plural bugs mean?
As a noun, "bugs" is the plural of "bug". It means small insects. Informally, "bug" can be some type of virus (stomach bug) or a glitch in a computer program.As a verb, "bugs" is the third person singular conjugation of "to bug" (bother) or to install a listening device (they bugged the phone).
What type of bug stopped the first electronic computer?
More than likely a syntactical error caused by transposing input.
When was the term computer bug first used and why?
1947 for a moth smashed in relay of Harvard Mark II. It shut it down.
How to say bug in German?
Bug, as in insect, is die Wanze or das Insekt. Bug, as in computer bug, could be said a number of ways, like: Programmfehler.
What erases spyware from your computer?
bug zappers
