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Comment by kot_manul

10 hours ago

You're correct; slot 6 for instance is $C600. If you crashed to the system monitor you could boot a disk by entering C600G (with the 'G' standing for 'go to').

IIRC the disk controller had firmware that loaded the first 256 byte sector from disk into memory.

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Dwedit  9 hours ago

If you crashed to the monitor, you could hit Ctrl+B and get back to BASIC, then type IN#6 to boot the disk.

  • Joe_Cool  9 hours ago

    Yeah. It was neat. But it rebooted in under a second so a complete crash was no biggie.

    RAM wasn't even cleared so usually no (or limited) data loss.

    I thought it was PR#6 (redirect output) to boot from the disk controller in slot 6. I wonder what redirecting input would do.