Restoring YC's Xerox Alto: how our boot disk was trashed with random data
In the previous Xerox Alto restoration session, we got the disk working, but the system didn't boot. After much investigation, I discovered the explanation for the boot failure: the disk has been overwritten with random data! This article describes my journey through the Alto microcode to determine what happened. Inserting…
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