Re:Sir Clive Sinclair has died
by rbanffy on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:00PM
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> booted into BASIC if you didn't insert a disk into the 5.25" floppy drive.
That's true. The PCs had a BASIC in ROM and a cassette port. That was dropped starting with the XT, which gave the puzzling "NO ROM BASIC" message in 80-column text when the hard disk was not bootable.
That's true. The PCs had a BASIC in ROM and a cassette port. That was dropped starting with the XT, which gave the puzzling "NO ROM BASIC" message in 80-column text when the hard disk was not bootable.