[Info-vax] OT: Halt and Catch Fire

[JohnF]

Alan Frisbie <Usenet03_REMOVE at flying-disk.com> wrote:
> 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.

As pointed out, no model 69, though I do recall a 65. And I also
recall that list posted on the front panel of either our 360/30 or 40.
Let's see, it also had RSC=read and shred card, among maybe one or two
dozen other mnemonics. But I don't have a copy.
You think you could scan your copy and post a pdf somewheres???

> 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

Before we got a 360/30 (at NYU's School of Commerce Academic
Computing Center) we had a 1620. Maybe the list existed then,
but it definitely didn't appear at ACC until circa 1968 and
the 360/30 or 40.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )