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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!
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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 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
What term was supposedly coined after a moth found its way into a computer called Mk1 at the Harvard University in 1945 and caused its malfunction?
bug - a computer bug
What did Grace Hopper find while working in a computer?
a computer bug is what she found in the computer
Why computer not upload pictures from documents to website?
Well your computer might have a bug
First computer bug in 1945?
Operators looking for the cause of a malfunction in Harvard University's Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator on September 9, 1945 discovered a moth trapped in its innards and Scotch-taped the unfortunate creature to the computer log over a caption reading, 'First actual case of bug being found.'
How do you do bug for lunch on office zombie?
I used the no ad can and Happened to throw it right before the bug crawled on the computer then he randomly ate the bug
