known as Cassette BASIC, Disk BASIC, Advanced BASIC (BASICA), and Cartridge BASIC. Versions of Disk BASIC and Advanced BASIC were included with IBM PC DOS...
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The original IBM Personal Computer and IBM PCjr includes support for storing data and programs on compact cassette tape. It was common for home computers...
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executable and does not need the Cassette BASIC ROM found in the original. It was bundled with MS-DOS operating systems on IBM PC–compatibles by Microsoft...
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Terminal with AGL graphics extensions IBM Cassette BASIC (Original IBM PC, built into ROM) Microsoft Level III BASIC (Tandy/Radio-Shack TRS-80) MBASIC (CP/M...
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The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the...
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Microsoft – IBM Cassette BASIC – but Microsoft also produced several other versions of BASIC for MS-DOS/PC DOS including IBM Disk BASIC (BASIC D), IBM BASICA...
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the IBM PC: IBM 5100 (1975) IBM 5110 (1978) IBM 5120 (1980) IBM System/23 Datamaster (1981) Japan-only IBM PC variants: IBM 5550 IBM JX IBM PS/55 IBM Palm...
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support. IBM Cassette BASIC (PC) – Built into the first IBM PCs. Ran independently of DOS and used audio cassettes as a storage medium. IBM VS-BASIC Mainframe...
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includes basic diagnostic software. If the computer is booted without an operating system and/or hard disk, the P75 will boot into IBM Cassette BASIC. IBM did...
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BIOS (redirect from IBM PC BIOS)
disk or a special partition on the hard drive. The original IBM PC BIOS (and cassette BASIC) was stored on mask-programmed read-only memory (ROM) chips...
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unit (CPU) developed by IBM. It was used in the IBM 5100 Portable Computer, a predecessor of the IBM PC, and the IBM 5110 and IBM 5120 follow-on machines...
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drives the Microsoft Cassette BASIC interpreter would be loaded, which was compatible with IBM PCjr BASIC, including Cartridge BASIC. PC DOS 2.11 could...
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BASIC) and Commodore 64 (Commodore BASIC), and were also provided with early versions of the IBM PC as the IBM Cassette BASIC. Microsoft also marketed through...
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PCjr has BASIC in ROM, but includes Cartridge BASIC instead of Cassette BASIC. In addition to cartridge support, it extended the standard IBM BASIC with commands...
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PALM processor with a Philips compact cassette drive, small CRT and full function keyboard. SCAMP emulated an IBM 1130 minicomputer in order to run APL\1130...
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DONKEY.BAS (category BASIC software)
25-inch floppy drives; however, IBM BASICA which ran the program under PC DOS 1.x requires ROM-based IBM Cassette BASIC, which modern computers do not...
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The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for...
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BIOS interrupt call (section INT 18h: execute BASIC)
Cassette BASIC in ROM (though Commodore renamed their licensed version Commodore BASIC), so in a substantial portion of its intended market, the IBM PC...
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the cassette interface was removed Otherwise the specifications are identical to the original PC. The number of expansion slots in the original IBM PC...
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cassette-based version of the IBM PC" that had been sold in the US, and the Model A was provided with the same IBM Cassette BASIC as such early IBM PC...
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Wang Laboratories (section Going after IBM)
a conventional IBM Selectric keyboard; when the Return key was pressed, the line of text was stored on a cassette tape. One cassette held roughly 20...
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included Cassette BASIC. While IBM did not publish the BIOS source code, it did promise to publish BIOS entry points. With certain models to the IBM PS/2...
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GW-BASIC with DOS. Functionally identical to IBM BASICA, its BASIC interpreter was a fully self-contained executable and did not need the Cassette BASIC...
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Wang 2200 (category BASIC programming language)
included an integrated computer-controlled cassette tape storage unit and keyboard. It was microcoded to run BASIC on startup, making it similar to home computers...
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Portable computer (section IBM 5100)
PALM processor with a Philips compact cassette drive, small CRT and full function keyboard. SCAMP emulated an IBM 1130 minicomputer in order to run APL\1130...
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Timeline of DOS operating systems (category DOS on IBM PC compatibles)
Byte, January 1976, p. 40 Cassette Seen Retaining Edge In Magnetic Recording Market, Computerworld, Nov 15, 1976, p. 52. IBM Adds to 3600 System, Computerworld...
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HP 9800 series (section Other BASIC computers)
simpler than BASIC that was later named high performance language (HPL), HP 9821A, similar to the HP 9820A, however, with Compact Cassette tape drive with...
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compatible with the IBM PC but actually designed to be an enhanced IBM PCjr-compatible computer. With inopportune timing (for Tandy), IBM discontinued the...
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6502 microprocessor, Commodore BASIC in read-only memory, keyboard, monochrome monitor, and, in early models, a cassette deck. Development of the system...
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TRS-80 (section Cassette tape drive)
Disk BASIC. Microsoft also marketed an enhanced BASIC called Level III BASIC written by Bill Gates, on cassette tape. The cassette contains a "Cassette File"...
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