John Galt writes: > > > Not really--All I know is that PCs and XTs fell back on cassette BASIC > when the disk boot failed--AMI BIOS still makes a call to it when it > fails, but the BASIC roms don't exist in post-8088s. It does seem > intriguing, though. I'll see what I can come up with. > I have come across a few old machies that had sockets like this, but never one that actually had a BASIC rom in it. I don't know what the ROM in this socket needs to contain in order for the BIOS to recognise it as a BASIC ROM and run it if boot fails. Interestingly enough the ELONEX 486DX33 I use for testing ELKS alot of the time has cassette BASIC built into its BIOS. I only found out by accident because I took out the harddrive. Al
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