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1945 - Grace Hopper is forever immortalized in the computer world as the first person to find a bug in a computer system. Litterally. The bug was a moth in between Relay #70 on Panel “F” of the Harvard Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.

From there on end, “Bug” meant a problem in a computer system. I guess once the moth was removed, the word “Debug” was also added.BTW – The relay functioned properly after the moth was removed.

1947 – It sounds like that same relay finally failed 2 years later.

This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for September 9

• The first TRS-80 is sold
• Sony releases the Playstation
• 9/9/99 (in 1999 that is)

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Article by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine

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