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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!!

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What is Poland's national insect?

no bug


How do you say bug or insect in Latin?

"cimex"


Which insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term computer bug?

a moth was smashed in a relay (blocking current flow, not shorting anything) of the Harvard Mark II (a very slow electromechanical computer, nowhere near a supercomputer).actually the term bug had been in use for decades for machine malfunctions.


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.


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.