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Computer trivia?

Can anyone give me the detials as to where the term,"Your computer has a bug" came from?

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago
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    In 1945, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer).

    On the 9th of September, 1945, when the machine was experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in Panel F. The operators removed the moth and affixed it to the log. The entry reads: "First actual case of bug being found." The word went out that they had "debugged" the machine and the term "debugging a computer program" was born.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    I the maiden of hacking have come to help you - it come from if you are sick you have a bug(virus) same stuff 4 computers. Easy - email me and give me somthing harder to answer.

  • Mafia
    Lv 4
    2 decades ago

    When your house get bugs, the bugs messup the house and produce bad smell, and bad diseases...When you computer messes up, we assume it will probably be a virus (computer bug).

  • 2 decades ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug

    "Usage of the term "bug" to describe inexplicable defects has been a part of engineering jargon for many decades; it may have originally been used in hardware engineering to describe mechanical malfunctions."

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  • Jordan
    Lv 4
    2 decades ago

    king_n0thing75 has the right answer. I learned this in school as well.

  • 2 decades ago

    i suck at computers, i can't give u a right answer.. thanks for asking..

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