72 Years Ago Today; The first computer bug discovered when moth found in an electrical relay

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6. I've seen that page...

and had the honor of meeting and hearing Grace Hopper speak two times. Just last week I was looking at a couple of pieces of wire 11.8" long that she gave me. They represent the distance electricity flows in a nanosecond - she handed them out to show how much you were wasting when poor coding (in an era of extremely expensive memory) wasted a nanosecond of CPU time. She had a 'microsecond' with her also...a roll of wire about 984 feet long.

I also have a packet of 'picoseconds' that I received from her after she retired from the Navy and was working as a spokesperson for Digital Equipment Corporation. It's ground black pepper.

What an amazing woman, and wonderful, engaging speaker.

"It's almost always easier to get forgiven than to get permission." (From one of her talks in the late 1980's.)