Development, round II

From: Cliff Gregory <cgregory_at_lrbcg.com>
Date: Tue Jan 27 07:36:04 1998

I've never seen an IBM cassette drive; fact is I've never seen a 5150
without at least one disk drive. The 5150 does boot to cassette BASIC if no
boot disk is present. Now my curiousity is piqued. I'm going to have to
find a cassette player and interface cable somewhere.

Cliff Gregory
cgregory_at_lrbcg.com

-----Original Message-----
From: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
To: Cgregory <Cgregory>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: Development, round II


>
>I never saw anybody use the cassette port for practical purposes. In fact,
I
>never saw a cassette drive from IBM. Good trivia question. Has anybody ever
>seen one? I do remember reading something years ago about hobbyists using
>the cassette port for plugging in wierd hardware hacks.
>
>The original PC came with Cassette Basic. As I recall, defaulted to that if
>you had no DOS boot disk. GWBasic and BasicA had to be loaded off the DOS
>disk.
>
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