To: Rockpile
Bugs predated computers but they did find a real bug in an early computer. It caused an malfunction, so they preserved the bug in the engineering notebook. I have seen the photograph.
31 posted on
08/05/2002 12:03:09 AM PDT by
Chemnitz
To: Chemnitz
Re: 31 Used to work with a guy who was employed as a tech at Aberdeen working on some roomsized computer for the Army. Eniac/Univac/something? He recounted about how they had trouble with moths being attracted to the tubes.
37 posted on
08/05/2002 7:02:36 PM PDT by
Rockpile
To: Chemnitz
The light from the vacumn tubes would draw moths in and they would get caught in the relays. My dad worked with computers in those days.
50 posted on
03/14/2005 7:05:02 AM PST by
Smokin' Joe
(I work with computers too much to let one run my car!)
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