The "first computer bug" story: what actually happened

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The famous story is that a moth found in a Harvard Mark II relay in 1947 gave us the word "bug." The truth is more interesting. Engineers were already using "bug" for glitches, and the logbook entry is funny because it was a literal bug. What's your favorite piece of computing history that turns out to be more myth than fact?
 
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