"Glitch"

While going through some literature on Operating Systems for preparing myself for a quiz in my department I came across a very intersting word origin. The word is "Glitch" . a word that we use so often. The word is normally used as a synonym for "bug". Many suggests that it is derived from the Yiddish word "glitshen", meaning "to slip". Now what I found is a story , don't know its a myth or not?

In the mid 1960s during the height of the space program, one of the top computer vendors built the first on-board computer system. On the morning of the launch , the computer vendor took out full-page ads in major publications around the world, that its computer was safely guiding the astronauts on their mission. That day, the computer failed , causing the space capsule to spin wildly out of control, putting the astronauts' lives at risk. The next morning one of the major newspapers reffered to this as the "Greatest Lemon in the Company's History!"

"If something can go wrong it will and at the most inopportune time"