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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
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Subject: Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 1 of 6
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In a recent article tewok@tove.cs.umd.edu (Uncle Wayne) writes:
 
>Unfortunately, Grace Hopper's logbook entry about the bug is yet
>another piece of folklore.  My father-in-law works at Dahlgren Naval
>Surface Warfare Center, the place where the bug entered history.  He
>has seen the logbook referring to the bug and our friend Grace wasn't
>on duty or in the building when the bug was found.  I imagine she came
>in later and found the bug in the logbook, but she wasn't there when
>the bug was found.  I've heard from the net that She went on to promote
>the bug and herself.  

FWIW, I've never heard Grace actually claim to be the person who actually
found the bug, and I'm not sure she ever even claimed to be on duty
at the time it was found.  Certainly she has appropriated the story as
one of her staple items for any talk she gives, but I don't think she
crossed the line between "this is something that happened where I was
once employed" and "this is something which happened to me".


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