On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:41:22 +1000
Colin Carter
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-h/g-hoppr.htm
Interesting site. But I don't believe what I read, especially when it comes to computer stuff ;-)
I don't mean to be offensive Jerry, but It is interesting that Americans discovered the first bug after the English had destroyed their programmable computer. This is true. Both the Germans and the English had one before the Americans. But, I was talking about the coining of the word, "BUG".
I also have an American book which describes the world's first auto-pilot flight - about two years after British European Airways were conducting routine auto-land in London's pea soup fogs. ("Fly the Wing" by Jim Webb, otherwise a very good book.)
But I won't be pig headed about my belief - I just believe so. Especially since (I believe) the English had already destroyed their machine.
I am interested in establishing which of us is 'correct', so don't drop out here. Note: I said 'establish', not 'prove I am right'. I hate that! I'm not a drop out, but I did drop (by way of a baseball bat) some jerk out of my helicopter at an altitude he was not prepared to drop from.
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Jerry Feldman