The term computer 'bug' can be literal [...] I opened the computer, peered inside and immediately noticed a real bug - a large, dead scorpion with several of its legs straddling electrical contacts on a circuit board. Hopper was an expert at programming Harvard University's Mark II computer, which used old-fashioned electrical relays instead of today's electronic circuits to solve equations. The notebook with this infamous computer ...
Sept. 13, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News
Computer “bugs” are sometimes real [...] I opened the computer, peered inside and immediately noticed a real bug — a large, dead scorpion with several of its legs straddling electrical contacts on a circuit board. Hopper was an expert at programming Harvard University's Mark II computer, which used old-fashioned electrical relays instead of today's electronic circuits to solve equations. The notebook with this infamous computer ...
Sept. 13, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News