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Which insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term computer bug?
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∙ 12y ago
a moth was smashed in a relay (blocking current flow, not shorting anything) of the Harvard Mark II (a very slow electromechanical computer, nowhere near a supercomputer).
actually the term bug had been in use for decades for machine malfunctions.
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