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On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 02:01:00PM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:42:21PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > > UPenn, Eniac, a moth had caused a short. Can't remember the name of the > > woman who diagnosed the problem and removed the moth from the circuit -- > > the first debugger. > > You're probably thinking of Admiral Grace Hopper, who didn't actually > remove the moth from the relay, though it was one of her favorite > stories to tell. The log entry in question (complete with moth taped to > it) is now in the Smithsonian. And the moth in question was actually logged at Harvard, on the Harvard Mark I, not the ENIAC at U of P. Admiral Hopper came to Philly after the War to work on the UNIVAC. I don't believe she actually worked with ENIAC, although she did work with Eckert and Maunchly after they left U of P to build the UNIVAC. Z. _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug