From: Dan Olson <dano@agora.rdrop.com>
To: Linux 8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Filesystem creation
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:31:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020514162847.T77017-100000@agora.rdrop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205140759150.5425-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-14 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-13 2:33 Filesystem creation lnordstrom
2002-05-12 23:07 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 14:22 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-13 17:36 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 23:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-14 0:12 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 7:06 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:31 ` Dan Olson [this message]
2002-05-14 6:54 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:36 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 0:19 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 6:42 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:48 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-15 0:12 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-12 1:23 lnordstrom
2002-05-12 20:04 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 8:59 ` Javier Sedano
2002-05-13 12:02 ` Harry Kalogirou
2002-05-13 17:42 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 23:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-14 6:56 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 12:44 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 17:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-14 17:59 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-15 17:52 ` Riley Williams
[not found] ` <3CE0283D.264@havn.com>
2002-05-14 21:01 ` Harry Kalogirou
2002-05-15 1:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-15 17:05 ` Riley Williams
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