GIGO

Posted by TheFallen on March 20, 2002

In Reply to: GIGO posted by sam on March 20, 2002

: hi guys
: if anyone could help me finding the origin of the phrase " Garbage In Garbage Out, GIGO". I use this phrase when in computer science, however, I do not know the origin of the phrase,,,
: HELP,,,PL ZZ

: thanx

It is indeed a Programming acronym, dating from the 50's I believe, when computers were fed with punched tape. If bad data or bad code were pumped into a computer, then the output was of course garbage. One of the leading lights here will be bound to give you a quotation with near first usage.

• GIGO ESC 03/20/02
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