PDP8/A memory problems, what to do? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Dec 2001

On Dec 26, 14:20, Gunther Schadow wrote:

...
  My first PDP-8 program is a memory test, and I was
glad I
 did it because I found a problem. My test goes through all
 memory fields and writes into each cell its address in the
 field. Then it reads that address out of each field again
 and so finds problems. 
Good idea.  I meant to mention in my followup to Ethan, that the
diagnostics are also available, at

  http://pdp-8.org/papertape/

and the corresponding documentation is available at

  http://www.pdp8.net/query_docs/query_all.html

The papertape images have headers, and the way the BIN loader works, you
need to strip the ASCII header but leave at least part of the top-bit-set
leader part at beginning and end.  The "send" program I mentioned will take
care of that.

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