Restoring YCombinator's Xerox Alto day 6: A failed chip fixed and data from disk

In today's Xerox Alto restoration session we investigated why the disk drive isn't working and found a failed chip. With this chip repaired, we were able to read a block from disk, although the system still doesn't boot. (In previous episodes, we fixed the power supply, got the CRT display…
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