Re: Filesystem creation

Dan Olson
2002-05-14T23:31:19Z

> Not quite true - IBM made the cassette interface an "optional extra" on
> an expansion card for the original IBM PC/XT (with up to 256k of RAM on
> the motherboard) but had discontinud it by the time the revised model
> (with up to 640k of RAM on the motherboard) hit the shelves.

Huh, I didn't know that, and I don't expect to see such a thing either :)
>
> My understanding is that the BIOS support didn't vanish until the XT-286
> and as such, if you can find one of those interface cards, you can quite
> probably still get a 640k XT with a cassette interface.

You know, now that you mention it, my AT has ROM BASIC, I wonder if it was
in there to support that card. I don't know what else you'd do with it,
if you didn't have a bootable hard drive and didn't choose to boot from
floppy. Did the disk-based basic talk to the BIOS, or to the hardware
itself?

Dan