[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bug" (Computer Term)

[Shapiro, Fred]

bug (OED, n2, 5.b., 1952)

1951 Oak Ridger (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) 28 Feb. 1/7 (Newspapers.com)

Engineers and mathematicians at large universities struggled to work "the bugs" out of the all purpose computers;

Fred Shapiro

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