The term bug came from bugs shorting the relays. Those were earlier machines than valve using ENIAC.
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1. "Use of the term 'bug' to describe inexplicable defects has been a part of engineering jargon for many decades and predates computers and computer software; it may have originally been used in hardware engineering to describe mechanical malfunctions."
2. "In 1946, when [Grace] Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book."
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