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From: jsd@boreal.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube)
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Subject: Re:  The term Bug
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Date: 6 Dec 90 01:25:30 GMT
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In article <127@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>, lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch) writes:
|> [Numerous postings about Grace Hopper and the term bug not included.]
|> I heard *SOMEWHERE* that the first bug was in ENIAC or UNIVAC, and was, in 
|> fact a bug that got into the machine and was fried by the wires and whose 
|> carcass maintained contact, thus short-circuiting the machine.  I 
|> sincerely hope that this is true, since it IS the story I've told to 
|> several hundred high school students. :-)
|> 

Your right.  I read the same thing in a Popular Science (c. 82-84).

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