Datanumerics DL8A is here! Have a peek @ ... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Mar 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
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