Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM

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On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 15:04:03 +0200
Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> wrote:

> Very old original IBM-PC have a ROM BASIC which can be used to boot
> up the machine, but I have a Atari PC3 XT-clone and am out of luck.
> 
> I found the xt-ide bios, which allows one to write an EEPROM to be
> placed on for example a network card, which, among other features,
> can boot over serial line and relays disk access to a newer host
> machine.

If the lack of a drive is the key issue, 8-bit IDE adapter with an IDE
to compact flash memory adapter card might work:

XTIDE - XT IDE BIOS
http://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/

XT 8-bit IDE adapter
https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/tag/xt-ide/

Syba IDE to compact flash memory adapter
http://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=610
http://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=603
http://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=609

The XT-IDE adapter board seems to be out of stock.  You might need to go
to eBay and search for XT-IDE to get a board.

The Syba adapter is supposed to allow booting, but I was never able to
get that to work.


Rod Pemberton
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Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2017-06-06 15:04 +0200
  Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 06:05 -0700
    Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2017-06-09 11:56 +0200
  Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 16:36 -0400
    Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2017-06-09 12:06 +0200
  Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-06-06 15:28 -0700
    Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-06-06 17:31 -0500
  Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-06-06 23:52 -0700
  Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM peter.m.falth@gmail.com - 2017-06-06 23:57 -0700
    Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2017-06-09 12:09 +0200
      Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 04:59 -0700
        Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-06-09 14:13 +0200
          Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 06:11 -0700
            Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-06-09 15:52 +0200
  Re: Retrocomputing Forth as BIOS option ROM Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-06-10 08:33 -0400

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