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From: shane@chablis.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 8 Feb 89 17:51:16 GMT
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In article <1373@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> aem@Mthvax.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) writes:
>That reminds me about the Commodore PET, you know, the one with the 
>terrible keyboard. If you 'poke'd to a certain location, you destroyed
>the boot eprom, and you would have to take the machine in for service.

That (in turn) reminds me of the early 6502 chips (used by the Commodore
PET).  Supposedly, some of the first series used in the PET had an
actual HACF (Halt and Catch Fire) instruction.  I've been told that
one instruction would cause all the pins to fire at once, thus burning
out the chip.


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