Harvard Mark II
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Oct 15, 2026
NickPANELIST
You guys don't know this? [laughs]
Pro-AmPANELIST
The Harvard Mark II was an early electromechanical computer.
AndyHOST
Obviously.
NickPANELIST
I was gonna tell them.
RichardHOST
Here we go, true-false.
RichardHOST
Bug, the term bug, originated from a moth in a Harvard Mark II relay in 1947.
MarioPANELIST
I want to say false.
MarioPANELIST
True.
IraHOST
The term bug for a software fault predates software.
IraHOST
The Mark II team, which included Grace Hopper, famously taped an actual moth into a logbook in 1947 after it got stuck in a relay on the Harvard Mark II.
IraHOST
Hopper helped make the story famous, though she probably didn't personally find it.
IraHOST
The moth still preserved at the Smithsonian.