This article lists 4 terms that it says originated with Mark I. But 3 of those terms were used in the Mark I because they already meant the correct thing. The only term to get effectively a new definition when applied to computers is "bug". So it seems kind of weird to say that e.g. "loop" originated with the Mark I when the definition of the word didn't change.<p>In fact this kind of brings to mind patents. "ordinary thing, done by a computer" is not particularly significant, neither in terminology nor patentable ideas.
Amazing to see how computer science imported these terms.. since it moved from classical mechanics to electromagnetism, electronics and now to quantum mechanics.. how the future will look like ? patterns, probabilities, uncertainty, learning, self-organization... much likely all those terms are going to disappear from the jargon .. a "bug" will have no meaning
Can anyone tell what these say: <a href="http://sites.harvard.edu/~chsi/markone/images/BugDrawings.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://sites.harvard.edu/~chsi/markone/images/BugDrawings.jp...</a><p>I can only half-read it. I was trained in cursive, but have not used it in years.