5 May
2005
5 May
'05
6:38 a.m.
At 02:28 AM 5/5/05 -0500, Pat wrote:
woodelf declared on Wednesday 04 May 2005 10:04 pm:
FWIW Also left out Professional Fortran, IBM Cobal, RM Cobal, Basic
Compiler without 8087, Basic Compiler with 8087, APL, Logo and several
more. I've been collecting the stuff and I'm amazed how many different
languages there were. I'm up to about four LARGE boxs of the stuff.
BTW recently picked up an old AT and found an 8" disk drive controller
in it. I can't remember who made it (Farmer Electonics?) but it's NOT a
compaticard. I powered up the AT to look for any drivers but the CMOS has
lost it's settings so I have to dig up a Setup disk and reset them before I
can access the HD and look for drivers. Checked my stash and found that all
the Setup disks that I have are all for PCs and XTs so I'e got to go dig
deeper to find the right Setup disk.
Joe
Parker, Kevin wrote:
Erm, you seem to have left out BASIC, one version of which didn't require
you to have disks to use (ROM BASIC); however, that was probably more
useful on the 5150 PC than the 5160 PC/XT since the PC had a cassette
interface you could use with it, which the XT lacks. Do you know what the popular choice was?
My Guess is IBM-DOS ... MS-DOS only came more
popular with the clones. Now what programing languges
did you have back then? Assembler , Pascal and Fortran
come to mind.