From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Filesystem creation Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020514162847.T77017-100000@agora.rdrop.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux 8086 > 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