Origin of the term "bug"?

[Dick Blaney]

My Vibroplex Original Standard key never had a "spider" or any other
kind of bug on the logo.  Simply the Vibroplex name.
73 de
Dick, WB8MHE
wb8mhe at bright.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Herman, KH6O <jeffreyh at HAWAII.EDU>
To: BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV <BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Origin of the term "bug"?


>On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Will White wrote:
>> Interestingly, I have been a ham and boatanchor fan for two whole
years (Wow,
>> huh?) now, and it just this minute occurred to me to wonder and ask
where the
>> term "bug" comes from as used to apply to a semi-automatic
telegraph key. So,
>> who will tell me?
>
>Isn't that due to the the spider in the Vibro logo?
>Jeff KH6O
>
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