RE: [OT] History of the mouse

[Manuel Camacho]

> I don't know much about the early macs, but I do know that BASIC was part
> and parcel of the OS for several micros of that era - Commodore PET and
> 64, Apple and Apple II, maybe even the earliest IBM PC/XT machines.  I

On the original IBM PC/XT, if you did not insert a bootable floppy on startup,
the box booted into BASIC mode, that was in a "BIOS like" chip in the
motherboard.

-Manuel.


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