Victor 9000 and bootstrapping; was: laptops and 5.25 inch floppy drives?

[Chuck Guzis]

You know, a little google goes a long way.

I found this in the google cache at: 
http://www.electrocution.com/biosc.htm

"On an IBM-compatible, you will find the BIOS embedded into a ROM on 
the motherboard, together with hard disk utilities and a CMOS setup 
program, although this will depend on the manufacturer. The ROM will 
usually occupy a 64K segment of upper memory at F000 if you have an 
ISA system, and a 128K segment starting at E000 with EISA or similar. 
It's on a chip so it doesn't get damaged if a disk fails, as 
sometimes used to happen on the Victor 9000/Sirius, which had both 
the BIOS and the system on the boot floppy."

So, you've got your work cut out for you if you're going to bootstrap 
from nothing.

Cheers,
Chuck