7 May
2005
7 May
'05
8:58 a.m.
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
In other words, it 'shipped' with Cassette
Basic, but minus the cassette
interface. All IBM XTs will boot to the Cassette Basic prompt, if no
disk controller is found, or no diskette is found in the A drive. You
can type in BASIC programs and run them, even writing to drives and
whatnot if I'm not mistaken.
Cassette BASIC did not include any built-in support for disk drives.
'course it did have peek and poke, with which you could do "anything",
including talk to the FDC, or put machine language code into memory.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com