PCjr with no disk drive? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Oct 1998

the pcjr is like any other IBM family one machine in that it will boot to
basic unless it has a disk device or in the case of the pcjr, a cartridge
inthe slot. 

In a message dated 10/29/98 9:08:03 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:

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   At 09:08 AM 10/29/98 -0800, Sam said:

 The PCjr had BASIC in ROM and didn't require a
floppy to boot.  
    Was the BASIC in a plug in cartridge and optional?   
  There was BASIC in the ROMs on the motherboard, AFAIK. There was a 
  cartridge that contained some kinds of extended BASIC, and of course you 
  could also run BASIC from disk if you had the disk drive.