| The oldest reference I know of to "Halt and Catch Fire" is shown here : https://www.facebook.com/larry.langerholc/photos/d41d8cd9/74... 1960s era. Humorous instructions for the IBM 360/69. If the image link doesn't work, I've OCRed it: IBM SYSTEM/360 MODEL 69 FEATURES AND DEVICES Early Card Lace 1401 Incompatibility 407 Emulation Chinese Character Set Branch on Burned-Out Indicator Branch on Blinking Indicator Branch and Hang Branch on Chip Box Full Branch on Power Off Branch on Sleepy Operator Inquire and Ignore Reverse Parity and Branch Branch on Bug Read While Write While Ripping
Tape Add Improper Divide and Overflow Subtract and Reset to Zero Add and Reset to Zero Scramble Program Status Word Pack Alpha and Drop Zones Pack Program Status Word Punch Invalid Rewind Card Reader Backspace Card Reader Read Print and Blush Forms Skip and Run Away Stacker Select Disk Write Wrong-Length-Record Write Noise Record Seek Record and Scar Disk Eject Disk Rewind Disk Backspace Disk Punch Disk Punch Operator Execute Invalid Op Code Read Card and Scramble Data Select Stacker and Jam Read Invalid Rewind and Break Tape Write Record and Run Away Make Tape Invalid Reverse Drum Immediate Transfer and Lose Return Print and Smear Read Chads Sharpen Light Pencil Transfer and Drop Bits Erase Card Punch Read Inter-record Gap Read Noise Record Erase Read Only Storage Destroy Storage Protect Key Update and Erase Record Move and Drop Bits Circulate Memory Move and Lose Record Move and Wrap Core Move Continuous Execute No-Op and Hang Develope Ineffective Address Halt and Catch Fire Scatter Print Re-initialize Meter Update Transaction Reduce Thruput Print and Break Chain Lose Message and Branch Burst Selector Channel Invert Record and Branch Illogical "or" Illogical "and" Bite Baudy Bit and Branch Triple-Pack Decimal Slip Disk Stacker Upset Uncouple CPU's and Branch Scramble Channels Edit:formatting. |
I compared it to another OCR of the same image, using http://ocr.space, and ChatGPT was correct in all the small number of differences, even preserving misspellings in the source.