Rabu, 04 Oktober 2017

The First Computer Bug

One week after Americans celebrated the end of World War II, the massive Mark II computer that ran ordnance calculations for the U.S. Navy shut down. On September 9, 1945, at 1545 hours, technicians found the culprit: a moth trapped between two of the machine’s thousands of relay points. Navy personnel assigned to the Bureau …

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