A moth taped to a logbook page in 1947 became one of the most repeated origin stories in computing, and the physical evidence ...

Engineers working on the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 found a moth jammed inside the machine’s relay hardware. They taped the dead insect into the operations log book and scrawled a now-famous ...

In 1947, engineers stared at the room‑sized Harvard Mark II computer in frustration as it kept malfunctioning. They finally opened a panel and discovered a moth wedged inside an electromechanical ...