On the evening of September 9, 1947, a strange silence fell over the Harvard Computation Laboratory. The Mark II electromechanical computerâ a colossal machine of whirring motors, clacking relays, and ...
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The first-ever computer bug was a moth that got caught between the relay contacts of a Harvard Mark II computer on September 9, 1947. Since ...
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