COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Operating
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Cleaning
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Hacking
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Debugging
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Detailed explanation-1: -On September 9, 1947, Harvard’s Mark II Aiken Relay computer was malfunctioning. After rooting through the massive machine to find the cause of the problem, Admiral Grace Hopper, who worked in the Navy’s engineering program at Harvard, found the bug. It was an actual insect.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1947, engineers working on the Mark II computer at Harvard University found a moth stuck in one of the components. They taped the insect in their logbook and labeled it “first actual case of bug being found.” The words “bug” and “debug” soon became a standard part of the language of computer programmers.
Detailed explanation-3: -The story goes that she anecdotally discovered an actual moth trapped in the relay contacts inside her Mark II computer causing it to malfunction. Removing the bug fixed the glitch, and hence it became known as “debugging.”
Detailed explanation-4: -bug – often (but erroneously) credited to Grace Hopper. In 1946, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she traced an error in the Harvard Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay.