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First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
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Group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera
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Electrically operated switch
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Harvard University
Private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
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