What are the really unusual or weird computers?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Tony Duell wrote:
>>    Are you sure the AT has ROM BASIC?  I don't remember that at all.
> 
> Yes I am 100% sure my AT has ROM BASIC (that's the machine I am typing 
> this on, BTW). It's the later (8MHz) model, so I assume the older ones 
> had it too, certainly the manuals I have imply that.
> 
> 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.

The other way to do it is to remove IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS (or IBMBIO.COM 
and IBMDOS.COM) from your hard drive and leave both floppy drives empty. 
  If memory serves, it will tell give you the non-system disk error 
message a couple of times before dumping you to ROM BASIC.

Peace...  Sridhar