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From: Andrew Davie <adavie_at_mad.scientist.com>
Date: Thu Mar 5 17:49:56 1998

>Silly question of mine: what is the machine supposed to boot
>from?


Oh, my terminology is wrong, I guess. I've not used a front-panel machine.
I guess you'd call these roms the machine's OS? Of sorts. Well... what ARE
they, then?

>In the first stages of bit rot, single bits go "flaky" and will not
>read reliably. So the first thing to do is read the 1702A's multiple
>times and see if any are going bad in this way. Of course, be sure
>to save the results of each read pass...


Thanks for that suggestion. Wilco.

Cheers
A
Received on Thu Mar 05 1998 - 17:49:56 GMT