Friday, April 11, 2008

tHE bug

Back in the 1940's Harvard's Mark II (a very early ancestor of our modern computers) failed causing Grace Hopper to coin what common computer phrase for the first time?

Answer:
The bug. A moth had actually gotten logged in the circuits which caused the failure. Therefore the first computer "bug" was really a Bug! The actual moth is still on display at the Naval Museum in Dahlgren.