by Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us

Image: The First Computer Bug, a moth, found blocking a switch on the US Navy's Harvard Mark I by Grace Hopper in 1945 -- "from then on, when the officer came in to ask if we were accomplishing anything, we told him we were 'debugging' the computer" -- courtesy of Time-Life Books, Inc., from The Editors of Time-Life Books, Software (Alexandria, Virginia : Time-Life Books, Inc., c.1985) Series: Understanding Computers. ISBN 0-8094-5658-3. |
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