A particularly nasty crash can make it do that cold-reset thing. I ran into that countless times while trying my hand at assembly development while using ROM2 and MFORTH. in that case the problem isn't that the memory is totally erased but that some important part gets corrupted and the stock ROM starts over from scratch. I couldn't tell you for sure what or how it happens, but it can.
Not necessarily the same as what you saw but I had an issue with my T102 that caused low voltages and battery drain due to the cassette remote being stuck on. The give-away for that case was if I carefully put the batteries in, I could hear the relay click on and stay on, regardless of the state of the on/off switch. It might be worth putting the machine on an ammeter and see if it's pulling some excess current if your batteries seem to not last as long as they should. On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 2:30 PM Cedric Amand <ced...@cedric.net> wrote: > I'm really not convinced my problem is REX related, at least not yet > > Is there a process, a type of crash, or something known to basically crash > the Model T and wipe it's RAM (and reset the clock !) ? > All of that with a perfectly working backup ram (I can replace the > batteries no problem) > > It's clearly the crash that wipes the ram/resets the thing, including the > clock ? > Is that a type of crash other people have seen ? Or am I cursed ? > > It's really the software is doing ctrl-break-power for me. It erases the > machine WITH a perfectly working battery. > > And I believe this mostly happens when doing save operations,or anything > involving serial - but it's super difficult to reproduce. It's mostly > random. > > Call to the gurus :) > > -- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.) Thanks /usr/games/fortune
