strange number corruption on pdp11/34

[Jacob Ritorto]

totally -- going to do just that.
 As soon as I (hopefully) find some pdp11 time this afternoon :)

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > From: Jacob Ritorto
>
>     > I just need quite a lot of hand holding because I'm still way too
> green
>     > with this stuff.
>
> Hey, that's what this list is for, right? ;-)
>
>     > put in the real numbers for address and csr for testing the drive ...
>     > I'm going to do that next, here. ... the reason it prompts a zero
>     > default is that it's a manifestation of the zero bug and that the
> real
>     > value *is* actually safe but hidden in memory?
>
> One other thing you could do that would be interesting: re-run the exact
> same test, but with the good cards in the machine, and see if you still
> get 0's printed, or if this time the correct numbers show up.
>
> Of course, that won't definitely prove that the right numbers are actually
> being used inside (in the case where it prints 0's), but it would
> certainly be
> suggestive.
>
>         Noel
>