Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Governor Dinwiddie

Tech investors are adverse to bugs.


2 posted on 12/31/2025 6:53:49 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Tell It Right

I read today that the idea of the ‘computer bug’ actually grew out of a case of an actual bug getting into a computer and causing trouble; whereupon Grace Murray Hooper promoted the idea of a computer bug. It’s also said that Edison preceded her in referring to ‘bugs’ in a machine; but Hooper’s bug is now in the Smithsonian:

https://daily.jstor.org/the-bug-in-the-computer-bug-story/


7 posted on 12/31/2025 7:04:23 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson