19 Jan
2022
19 Jan
'22
7:53 a.m.
My curiosity is ?what kind? of boot program did they use, was it some sort of PC Dos
incarnation?
There?s very little info left in IBM?s archives.
I also suppose the IBM Modularity option which plugs into the CPU board of the electronic
typewriter, but that too is an educated guess on my part.
Don Resor
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On Jan 19, 2022, at 7:32 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
?On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 04:06:59 -0800, D. Resor via cctalk wrote:
There was also a 5.25" diskette which was nicknamed "IPL" for
"initial
program load", and an interface board which was installed into the
typewriter and was referred to as the "IBM Typewriter Modularity Option".
Hi Don,
Apologies if you know this already but IPL / initial program load
is IBM-speak for "boot".
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.