27 Jun
2007
27 Jun
'07
7:57 p.m.
> Including ROM BASIC that writes and reads
cassette tapes?
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Jim Leonard wrote:
You're being pedantic :-) I've never come
across an IBM PC program on
cassette tape, and I'm betting 99% of the list hasn't either :)
The IBM Diagnostics, and a few others were available on cassette.
Right before the XT came out, there was an outfit peddling a crude network
using the cassette port! It disappeared immediately when the XT came out.
There were a very few programs that relied on specific addresses in the
BASIC ROMs!
But, admittedly, th incompataibilities between the 5150 and 5160 were
negligible.
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