The computer software bug makes its first appearance

Posted on September 9, 2014 by GilPress

firstbugToday in 1947,  operators of the Mark II traced the cause of the computer’s malfunction to a moth caught in a relay and wrote in their logbook “First actual case of bug being found.”

See also Debugging the Origin of the Term “Bug”  and  Grace Hopper and Other Programmers

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