26 Jan
1998
26 Jan
'98
11:36 p.m.
I've never seen an IBM cassette drive; fact is I've never seen a 5150
without at least one disk drive. The 5150 does boot to cassette BASIC if no
boot disk is present. Now my curiousity is piqued. I'm going to have to
find a cassette player and interface cable somewhere.
Cliff Gregory
cgregory(a)lrbcg.com
-----Original Message-----
From: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
To: Cgregory <Cgregory>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: Development, round II
I never saw anybody use the cassette port for practical purposes. In fact,
I
never saw a cassette drive from IBM. Good trivia
question. Has anybody ever
seen one? I do remember reading something years ago about hobbyists using
the cassette port for plugging in wierd hardware hacks.
The original PC came with Cassette Basic. As I recall, defaulted to that if
you had no DOS boot disk. GWBasic and BasicA had to be loaded off the DOS
disk.