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Article #1310Re: Myth in relay! Urban moth?
From: holl... The Polymath
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 19:21
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 19:21
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In article <37...@accuvax.nwu.edu> SADO...@STAFF.ACNS.NWU.EDU (George Sadowsky) writes:
}I have heard Grace Hopper tell this story several times of a moth getting
}into a machine. As I recall, she was one of the people who found the moth
}and put it in the log book. The machine was one of the the early
}computers at the Aiken Computation Lab at Harvard, either the Mark I or
}the Mark IV, I think.
I've heard the actual log book, complete with moth, now resides in the
Smithsonian Institution. I've never been there to confirm this, however.
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