PCjr with no disk drive?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Oct 30 09:41:49 1998

At 01:42 AM 10/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
>> As far as I know it was in the ROM on the motherboard.
>
>If you turn the machine on with no disk in the drive and no cartridge in
>either slot, you get ROM BASIC.
>
>There is also a more advanced BASIC on a cartridge. If you turn the
>machine on with the BASIC cartridge in a slot, you get cartridge BASIC.
>
>This is not a guess. This is how my PCjr behaves.

  That's my understanding. There are three levels of BASIC for the Jr.
Level 1 is the ROM BASIC, level 2 is the disk BASIC and level 3 is the
cartridge BASIC. I was surprised that the cartridge BASIC was the most
complete but that's what the manual says.

   Joe
Received on Fri Oct 30 1998 - 09:41:49 GMT