In <[email protected]>, on
10/27/2011
   at 06:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:

>I recall a computer, perhaps pre-360; perhaps non-IBM whose
>operator's console had a deeply recessed button that set all central
>memory to 0.

S/370 included a clear-reset function that cleared storage. Is that
what you're thinking of?
 
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