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Sunday 15 November 2026

The moth in relay seventy

Ten puzzles on the moth found in the Harvard Mark II, from a Morse opener to an ADFGX closer, with a find-a-word. Answers at the foot.

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An electromagnetic memory relay of the kind used in Konrad Zuse's Z3, Z5 and Z11 computers. Photo: Denis Apel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

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In September 1947 operators of the Harvard Mark II found a moth stuck in a relay and taped it in the logbook. Time to debug.

An old electromechanical relay with a copper coil and contact springs on a pale background — An electromagnetic memory relay of the kind used in Konrad Zuse's Z3, Z5 and Z11 computers. Photo: Denis Apel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

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