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Article #19510Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
From: Ming MAR
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 09:15
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 09:15
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trung@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Trung Tran) writes: >Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb) writes: > >>> The Golden Gryphon writes: >>> >>> >NO ROM BASIC >>> >SYSTEM HALTED >>> >>> You may not have the boot partition active. > >>I suspected my system was overheating from too much use, and since I began >>turning it off a few hours a day to let it cool, the problem has disappeared. > >I turned on the PC and there it was. After a cold reboot, it disappeared. This occurs when you run an old IBM program. Only IBM puts BASIC in ROM. It was their way of forcing people to buy true blue instead of a compatible. It was an unsuccessful strategy.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!charnel!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!mingmar From: mingmar@cs.mcgill.ca (Ming MAR) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ??? Message-ID: <C0Kxq1.GHo@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 9 Jan 93 09:15:36 GMT References: <19377@mindlink.bc.ca> <trung.726508956@sundance> Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 18