PC cassette interface and ROM BASIC (was Re: OT, but info needed: RAM uprade) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Dec 1998

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 Are you sure it's useless?

If you use IBM's disk BASIC or BASICA, you're actually using ROM BASIC.
Try running BASICA on a clone sometime.  It won't work.  That's why
MS-DOS for other platforms usually included GWBASIC.
 Hmm... I use IBM DOS and BASICA/BASIC (not GWBASIC) on a Tandy 1000TX, and
it works.  No ROM BASIC in that thing.
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