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by thr0w__4w4y 929 days ago
Would just like to jump in and remind folks of the Therac-25 incident just a couple years before this (1985 and 1987), and the user interface was also identified as a contributing factor.

https://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse470/Public/Handouts/Therac/Side_...