In message <00ee01c3782a$03878b00$0100a8c0@SONYDIGITALED>, ed sharpe
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>do you have the  exact reference to Edison on that?   would like to track
>this further

Google, as always, is your friend......

Search String:   Edison bugs

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Todd's Quotation Reference Archive: Computer "Bugs"
... is currently at the Smithsonian Institution and has an appointment
in the Geology Department at Princeton, quotes Thomas Edison using the
term "bugs" as early ...

www.msu.edu/user/vanhoose/quotes/0021.html
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[EAS]History of Bugs
... already accepted shop slang as early as 1878, when Thomas Edison
described his ... difficulties arise -- this thing gives out and then
that -- "Bugs" -- as such ...
jove.eng.yale.edu/pipermail/eas-info/2001/000244.html
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Words: Woe and Wonder
... In Thomas Edison's day, for instance, bugs were "little faults and
difficulties" in new devices, according to the Random House Historical
Dictionary of ...
cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/bugaboos.html
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HTH

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