#: 15705 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    29-Jun-92  20:55:10
Sb: #15652-#MM/1 problems
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X)

Bill, I wonder if the ROMs are decaying? Sometimes when I boot my system the
'dir' command doesn't appear in the stuff in the ROMs, so the first dir goes to
the disk to load itself. (I found this out when I started to use a replacement
dir--sometimes I'd get the old one, sometimes the new one). My theory
(dangerous ground here) is that sometimes a bit or two in the ROM is incorrect
at the point where dir is located, so it's not mapped in. Could be that in your
case it's a bad bit in cio. Maybe I should pull the ROMS and just reburn a copy
and see what happens (but I'm too lazy). Hummm, one other thing I noticed is
that it depends on how you boot. I had more luck getting 'dir' to appear in
memory when I held RESET down for a few seconds than if I used 'break' or hit
it momentarily.

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