About Grace Hopper's moth: the notes in her logbook say "First case of actual bug being found." Meaning that the term "bug" meaning an error or glitch was in common use even when she found the moth.
"Bugs on the line" was a term used to refer to transmission errors, often due to unauthorized operators, in the telegraph days.
We're all familiar with Brooks' injunction regarding flowcharts and tables, but I've recently found the same sentiment expressed at the dawn of the computer age:
I know it's popular, but I bet a lot of people haven't heard the flowchart and table quote you're referencing:
"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)
"Bugs on the line" was a term used to refer to transmission errors, often due to unauthorized operators, in the telegraph days.
Booth & Britten, "General Considerations in the Design of an All Purpose Electronic Digital Computer." (1947) p5 https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/7942/Bo...
> ...once the form of the high speed memory has been decided, most of the other components of an electronic computer become semi-invariant.
"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)
I joined at what the author referred to as the REPL stage, and never used cards though the two eras overlapped.