I don't know if they are EPROMs, but I don't think so. It came stock with
BASIC on ROM.
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Loboyko Steve wrote:
>
> --- Absurdly Obtuse <vance_at_ikickass.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Tell me of a PCompatible (not made by IBM) that
> > has BASIC hanging off INT
> > > 18h, then maybe I'll concede the point 8-)
> >
> > I don't mean to take sides on this argument, but my
> > Everex 286 XT has
> > BASIC on INT18h.
>
> Hmmm...are there EPROM's in it, or ROMs? I built a PC
> compatible with a bare board and stuffed the chips and
> soldered it when I was broke in college. The BIOS it
> came with wasn't very PC compatible. So (and I'm not
> making any excuses for this..) I wrote a program in
> disk based GW-BASIC (I actually BOUGHT it) that looked
> like it did something when in reality it was writing
> 2048K ROM images of the BIOS and BASIC ROMS of a real
> IBM PC to floppy. I took it to an IBM store (IBM had
> "stores" then) and told the salesman that I wanted to
> know if my program would really run on an IBM PC/XT. I
> ran it, it "worked", I said, "thank you very much",
> went to work, blew the EPROMS, stuffed 'em in my
> motherboard, and then, my PC, although it had a wooden
> case and a power supply shielded with Erector Set
> parts, was really, really, definitely IBM PC
> compatible!!
>
>
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Received on Wed Oct 03 2001 - 23:26:06 BST