[Info-vax] OT: Halt and Catch Fire

[Alan Frisbie]

On 06/02/2015 08:25 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Yeah, I know , "HCF, Halt and Catch Fire"  was an IBM 370 instruction in
> many "hacked" university documents.
>
> Seems to deal with the emergence of the PC in early 1980s

I have a ditto copy (remember ditto copies?) of an instruction list from
the 1960s which had "Halt and Catch Fire", supposedly for the IBM S/360
Model 69.   I am sure that it was copied from an even earlier list for the
IBM 1620, but I don't have a copy.   That would have been in 1965.

Alan Frisbie