mrmanse
Member
Yes, you read correctly, 1989.
I recently purchased an IBM 5162 on Ebay, which not only came with 2 working Seagate ST-225s and a CPU running at 8 MHz, it also has a motherboard ROM reporting BIOS date 1989-04-28. I was told that it is a genuine IBM ROM by IBM France, and I did test that both the diagnostics diskette and the cassette basic works. Seems unlikely that a clone BIOS would have IBM cassette Basic. Compared to the standard 1986 ROM there are hundreds of differences, but the files aren’t completely different either, some huge chunks are the same.
I’d like these files to be offered to other enthusiasts, and possibly published on the absolutely great site minuszerodegrees. I understand that the keeper of that site is active in this forum.
/M
I recently purchased an IBM 5162 on Ebay, which not only came with 2 working Seagate ST-225s and a CPU running at 8 MHz, it also has a motherboard ROM reporting BIOS date 1989-04-28. I was told that it is a genuine IBM ROM by IBM France, and I did test that both the diagnostics diskette and the cassette basic works. Seems unlikely that a clone BIOS would have IBM cassette Basic. Compared to the standard 1986 ROM there are hundreds of differences, but the files aren’t completely different either, some huge chunks are the same.
I’d like these files to be offered to other enthusiasts, and possibly published on the absolutely great site minuszerodegrees. I understand that the keeper of that site is active in this forum.
/M