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> I wish I knew of a good write-up. As I recall, it was in the 1960s and
> much of the more direct documentation has not made it into the
> internet-age. There are some second, third, and fourth hand retellings but
> I don't know of specific references.
>
> It was an odd one in which, I think, the clock oscillator of one
> controller board went way out of spec (perhaps due to a bad crystal) and
> the fail-safe software interlocks were not built to detect that kind of
> failure. There may also have been some contributing software flaws that
> were exposed as a result of the larger failure.


Right, I referenced that one a few weeks ago on crystal oscillator design.


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