If you're young enough to not know what "Halt and Catch Fire", "Killer poke", and "lp0 on fire" are, here's a fun peek at some of the more interesting computer failures, failure modes, and failure messages from the annals of computer history:
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Cyrix coma bug
- Pentium F00F bug
- Pentium FDIV bug
- Killer poke
- Scratch monkey
- Stuxnet
- lp0 on fire
- Write only memory
- Not a typewriter
- PC LOAD Letter
Thanks go to Chris Dudte for first introducing me to "Halt and Catch Fire" ;)
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