XT 5160

[Fred Cisin]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
> In other words, it 'shipped' with Cassette Basic, but minus the cassette
> interface.  All IBM XTs will boot to the Cassette Basic prompt, if no
> disk controller is found, or no diskette is found in the A drive.  You
> can type in BASIC programs and run them, even writing to drives and
> whatnot if I'm not mistaken.

Cassette BASIC did not include any built-in support for disk drives.
'course it did have peek and poke, with which you could do "anything",
including talk to the FDC, or put machine language code into memory.


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