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by bklaasen
1211 days ago
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Yes, it made a racket! There is a description of the Harvard Mark I crashing in Beyer's "Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age": > Hopper, Campbell, and Bloch invested substantial energy in developing practices and procedures for debugging. Like physicians, they identified symptoms, made diagnoses, and prescribed treatments. Sometimes symptoms were obvious, as when Mark I would come to a crashing halt: “The crash of that thing sounded as if a plane had run into the building,” Hopper recalled. ”You never heard such a crash in your life.” |
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Similar to how the term debugging may or may not have been "reinforced" by the finding of an actual moth on the Mark II (it wasn't its origin, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging#Etymology ).