= Therac-25
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Therac-25 is a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine that was developed in the 1980s. It was designed to deliver high doses of radiation to patients with cancer, but it became infamously known due to a series of incidents that resulted in severe radiation overdoses to patients, leading to injuries and deaths. The machine was notable for its use of software to control its operations, which was relatively new for medical devices at the time.
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