Talking of BYTE: W Jay Dowling wrote a "Dead Jerry" letter that was published in the March 1985 edition of BYTE (W. Jay Dowling. "The Earliest Bug", BYTE. Marc

Talking of BYTE: W Jay Dowling wrote a "Dead Jerry" letter that was published in the March 1985 edition of BYTE (W. Jay Dowling. "The Earliest Bug", BYTE. March 1985. 10(3) 350.) giving a longer history of the term. Jerry Pournelle's response was to note that a lot of people had written in to BYTE about its tale of the origin of the term.