19 Mar
2017
19 Mar
'17
1:22 p.m.
On Mar 19, 2017 12:47 PM, "Adam Sampson via cctalk" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Alexandre Souza via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> writes:
Has anyone made a ROM that runs BASIC and allows use of the disk drive to
save on an IBM PC? This always bugged me that if you forgot to insert your
dos disk before the computer powered up that one could not enter a basic
command to tell the system to boot up from the drive without
ctrl-alt-delete and wait....or to boot from the b drive, etc.
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
I lost my XT BASIC ROMS, can someone send me the
code so I can burn it
and replace on my XT?
minuszerodegrees.net has several versions of the XT ROM images, along
with lots of other useful service information for PC/XT/AT machines:
http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/bios/bios.htm
--
Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
20 Mar
20 Mar
9:11 a.m.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote:
Has anyone made a ROM that runs BASIC and allows use
of the disk drive to
save on an IBM PC? This always bugged me that if you forgot to insert your
dos disk before the computer powered up that one could not enter a basic
command to tell the system to boot up from the drive without
ctrl-alt-delete and wait....or to boot from the b drive, etc.
That would be very, very, cool. :)
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
9:23 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:11 PM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote:
Has anyone made a ROM that runs BASIC and allows use of the disk drive to
Kind of a jiffy DOS for the IBM PC
save on an IBM PC? This always bugged me that if
you forgot to insert
your
dos disk before the computer powered up that one could not enter a basic
command to tell the system to boot up from the drive without
ctrl-alt-delete and wait....or to boot from the b drive, etc.
That would be very, very, cool. :)
g.
--
2795
days inactive
2796
days old
2 comments
2 participants
participants (2)
-
billdegnan＠gmail.com -
geneb＠deltasoft.com