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From: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.internals,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 1 of 6
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.141803.2827@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 6 Dec 90 14:18:03 GMT
References: <1YbxCV#0YFHYG9zh4Tw3Ytjsy4ddrOM=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> <207@frcs.UUCP> <1990Dec5.024705.10989@mdivax1.uucp> <28349@mimsy.umd.edu>
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In article <28349@mimsy.umd.edu>, 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.  Yet another piece of folklore debunked -- that
> is, if you trust my father-in-law and me.
> 

Well, I for one don't believe your father-in-law.  I heard Grace
Hopper speak once while I was working in Massachusetts, and she told
the story exactly as related here by other folks.  I have no reason
to doubt her.  She's an extraordinary lady.

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Greg Hunt                        Internet: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com
DG/UX Kernel Development         UUCP:     {world}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!hunt
Data General Corporation
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA  These opinions are mine, not DG's.


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