What are the really unusual or weird computers?

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Fri Jun 29 22:05:32 CDT 2007


On 29 Jun 2007 at 22:51, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> > It's pretty hard to get to in most AT ystems because it'll boot from the 
> > floppy or hard drives rather than run ROM BASIC. But I suspect you could 
> > pull the disk cotnroller card and it'll go into BASIC.

...So my not write a little file called, oh, GOBASIC.COM that 
contains the following 4 bytes?

CD 18 CD 20

If there's a BASIC in ROM, that should get to it, no?  The extra two 
bytes are there just to catch things if there's no BASIC ROM.

Cheers,
Chuck



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