Grace Hopper , one of the first computer programmers , and her crew popularized the terms bug.
The Mark II computer developed at Harvard was in a building without windows screens. One night the machine conked out, and the crew began looking for the problem.
They found a moth with a wingspan of four inches that had gotten smashed in one of the electromechanical relays. The 'bug' was removed and the machine started working .
The 'bug was pasted with Scotch tape in the log book'
From then on, they referred to ferreting out glitches as “debugging the machine.”
The Mark II computer developed at Harvard was in a building without windows screens. One night the machine conked out, and the crew began looking for the problem.
They found a moth with a wingspan of four inches that had gotten smashed in one of the electromechanical relays. The 'bug' was removed and the machine started working .
The 'bug was pasted with Scotch tape in the log book'
From then on, they referred to ferreting out glitches as “debugging the machine.”
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