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Re:User Manual for the Harvard Mark 1 Electro-Mechanical Com... by anyfoo on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:31PM (#34940685)
Is that where the term of a computer "crashing" comes from?

Similar to how the term debugging may or may not have been "reinforced" by the finding of an actual moth on the Mark II (it wasn't its origin, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging#Etymology ).

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Re:User Manual for the Harvard Mark 1 Electro-Mechanical Com... by abudabi123 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @01:43AM (#34943634)
Perhaps debugging comes from a mathematical joke in base 6 encoding.
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