> Or maybe a moth.
> One of my favourite pictures - but is this a myth as WELL as a moth?
> http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/first_bug.html
> Can anyone confirm this is the origin of the term "bug"?
> Its a nice site for Classic computer collectors, anyway.
A few years ago someone wrote a letter to the editor of Scientific
American about this moth. The letter quoted a letter from Thomas Edison
which uses "bug" in this way and explains the term.
The moth can at most claim to be the first time a bug was caused by a
_real_ bug.
Roger Ivie
ivie_at_cc.usu.edu
Received on Wed Feb 11 1998 - 11:14:56 GMT