A moth taped to a logbook page in 1947 became one of the most repeated origin stories in computing, and the physical evidence ...
Engineers working on the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 found a moth jammed inside the machine’s relay hardware. They taped ...
In context: Harvard University officially introduced the Harvard Mark I computer on August 7, 1944. Also known as the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator or ASCC, the computer was the brainchild ...