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A moth was removed from a Mark II computer relay in 1947 and taped into an operations log with the note 'first actual case of bug being found'. The logpage is preserved at the Smithsonian. The Mark II used 13,000 electromechanical relays and weighed 25 tons. The event gave software bugs their enduring metaphor.
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