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from James s huggens website
The Bug
In 1947, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer).
On the 9th of September, 1947, when the machine was experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in Panel F.
The operators removed the moth and affixed it to the log. (See the picture above.) The entry reads: "First actual case of bug being found."
(See the link at the bottom of this page for a much larger version of this picture.)
The word went out that they had "debugged" the machine and the term "debugging a computer program" was born.
Although Grace Hopper was always careful to admit that she was not there when it actually happened, it was one of her favorite stories.
It is actually, on display in the smithsonian i think.
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∙ 15y agoYou can find your answer under etymology, on Wikipedia's Software Bug entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology
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∙ 11y agoYour computer can get a lot of viruses by visiting infected websites, opening infected documents, or not having a good installed antivirus.
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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 is a computer bug?
any problem in the computer's hardware or software..
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!
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
Is a scorpion a bug?
Some people say it is other's say it isn't but I personally think it is a bug
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
How do you get rid of bugs?
No dont use bug spray you use porocside. It heals bug bites try porocside not dum old bug spray.GOODLUCK.
How do you know if a computer program has a bug?
You can tell if it has a bug by scanning the program with a antivirus software. If you have Norton that will do it automatically. But one of the easiest and most obvious reasons is if it doesn't work. But sometimes it will still work if it has a bug.
What is a bug in a computer program?
A bug in a computer program is when something doesn't work in the computer program. Cause could be: Something was entered in the programming correctly. Ex. you want to click on exit button but it does something else.
