Talk:Halt and Catch Fire
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[edit] How to attribute?
I just added this:
In the early 1980s Odetics made a 6800-based video jukebox that would occasionally enter test mode when subjected to static electricity on the coin slot. The system reset was connected to the NMI (non-maskable interrupt) pin instead of the RST (reset) pin, based on the assumption that the 6800 always responds to NMI. 6800 test mode, however, only responds to RST, not NMI. No damage occurred, but the screen would display garbage and the mechanism would move back and forth until the power was turned off and then on.
...which is based on my own memory. How do I properly attribute it?
