Re: iSeries Legends

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Shields, Ken wrote:
> 	I believe the Subject should be 'Computer Legends', as opposd to ISeries Legends. 
> 	To wit; ISeries logo, didn;t even exist when the 'legend' was created.
>
> 	My favorite over the years, was a story told to me by an old school prof.
>
> 	According to him, (and this goes back 40 years or so), the term 'Bug', in reference to computers, 
> 	happened in an IBM research lab, when they left the windows open one night, and the moths and insects
> 	clogged up the disk drives, and a considerable amount of research was lost.
> 	How much truth, or fact is associated with that story is questionable, but it's always seemed plausible in my mind.
> 	That's because, maybe with the exception of Joe, I can remember the old RAMAC drives, and the story seems very plausible.
>
> Ken Shields.


See http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-h/g-hoppr.htm 
for a short bio of Grace Hopper, the person who first used the term 
"debugging" in the context of computers.

(As an aside, my baby daughter was born on the same day as Grace 
Hopper.)

Cheers! Hans