I remember something like that from many moons ago. Specifically it had to do with vacuum tubes and mechanical relays, rather than transistors, and early computers were room sized ones when that term came to be in the computer world's fold. Somewhat nebulous meaning similar to that was supposedly used much earlier than that though.
More history at https://www.howtogeek.com/726020/what-is-a-computer-bug-and-where-did-the-te rm-come-from/ -----Original Message----- From: Maf. King <m...@chilwell.net> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2024 4:55 PM Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta On Sunday, 3 November 2024 15:31:24 GMT Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash- user wrote: > > PS -- know why we call them "bugs"? << the origin of the tern >> > > The story i was told many years ago was a dead moth shorting out some core memory module (or somesuch) in the very early days of stored programming. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
