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From: abs@rlvd.UUCP (Andrew Smith)
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Subject: Re: The origin of 'debugging'
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 01:50:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 01:50:27 1985
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	I went to a talk given by Grace Hopper (the mother of COBOL! )
	a few years back, and she claims to have created the phrase
	in the early days of computing. Here is her story :

		She was working on a relay computer which used to get
		very hot and they opened the windows one day in order
		to cool the machine down. Well, apparently all these
		insects flew in and got caught between the contacts
		of the relays. They were removed, and so the computer
		was 'Debugged'.

	I don't believe this myself. Anybody out there heard this story ?


	Andrew Smith.
	IKBS Group, Informatics Division,
	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
	Chilton, Didcot,
	OXON. UK.

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