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The sources listed below each answer are not the only ones
that could be used to find the answer. As you confirm other links your students
submit, record them in your annotated version of this answer key for future
use.
Question 1: What was the 1st computer bug?
Answer:
Moth
Sources:
http://www.lewhill.com/firstcomputerbug.html
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/objects/bug.htm
Question 2: What kind of computer was the bug found in?
Answer:
Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator
Sources:
http://www.lewhill.com/firstcomputerbug.html
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/objects/bug.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96566kc.htm
Question 3: Where and when was the first computer bug found?
Answer:
Harvard University on September 9, 1945
Sources:
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/objects/bug.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96566kc.htm
Question 4: One of the sites referenced in the Resources section gives the wrong location for where the bug was found. What is URL of that site and where was the location of the computer mentioned? Bonus: Was the logbook ever at that location and if so, in what year?
Answer:
Naval Weapons Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
Bonus: Yes, 1988
Sources:
http://www.maxmon.com/1945ad.htm
Bonus:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96566kc.htm
Question 5: Where does the 1st computer bug reside now?
Answer:
National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution
Sources:
http://www.lewhill.com/firstcomputerbug.html
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/comp_bottom.htm
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm
Question 6: What famous female naval officer is said to have found the bug?
Answer:
Grace Murray Hopper
Sources:
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm
http://www.lewhill.com/firstcomputerbug.html
http://www.maxmon.com/1945ad.htm
Question 7: What publication does the following sentence come from?
"The term "bug" is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus."
Answer:
Electrical handbook, 1896, "Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity", Theo. Audel & Co.
Sources:
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/bug.html
Question 8: What famous American inventor also used the term "bug" to describe a glitch?
Answer:
Thomas Edison
Sources:
http://www.maxmon.com/1945ad.htm
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm
Question 9: What is the filename (with .jpg extension) of the US Navy Photograph showing the first computer bug, #NH 96566-KN?
Answer:
h96566k.jpg
Sources:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96566k.jpg
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug_large.htm
Question 10: In what Relay # and Panel letter was the bug found?
Answer:
Relay #70, Panel F
Sources:
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/objects/bug.htm
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/bug.html
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm
Question 11: On what page of the logbook was the bug affixed to?
Answer:
Page 92
Sources:
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/objects/bug.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96566k.jpg
http://www.lewhill.com/firstcomputerbug.html
Question 12: Knowing the answer to "What was the first computer bug" on ABC's Millionare Game gave who, how much money, on what date, and how old was the contestant?
Answer:
Joe Trela, $1Million, on Thursday, March 23, 2000, 25 years old
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/032400/millionaire.sml
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Modified on November 15, 2000
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