Myth in relay! Urban moth?

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From: b... Or feature
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 04:59

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I have heard a number of versions of a story about a myth
flying into a relay of an early electro-mechanical computer.
The myth gets taped into the system log book.
The use of "bug" meaning computer problem is born.

Two questions:
	Can someone attest to myth in the logbook story?
	(First- or second- hand sources preferred.)

	I find it hard to believe that this was the first time
	that an insect jammed a relay.  Is this really the origin
	of this meaning of bug?

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Subject: Myth in relay! Urban moth?
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