IBM Cassette BASIC
IBM Cassette BASIC was a version of the Microsoft BASIC programming language that the company IBM licensed for the IBM PC from Microsoft . The programming language was integrated directly in the BIOS ROM of the IBM PC. Cassette BASIC offered the user a preset user interface if there was no diskette in the computer or if the boot process of the computer did not find a bootable diskette. The name Cassette BASIC for the program came from the fact that compact cassettes and not floppy disks were normally used to store programs and data.
Web links
- IBM: IBM Personal Computer Hardware Reference Library, Basic. www.retroarchive.org, accessed March 20, 2014 .