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Jeff Parsons b54253acf9 Numerous changes to make paper tape configurations more consistent with disk configurations. This allows all devices to share the machine-wide "autoMount" configuration object, now that the PC11 has a proper device name ("PTR"), making its properties distinguishable from those for RK11 and RL11 drives (eg, "RK0", "RL0", etc). And all the tape/disk components now use "Load" functions to connect a tape or disk to a device ("Attach" is deprecated). And finally, all tape/disk components now support operations to deposit their media directly into memory -- although in this case, the names of the operations are necessarily different: "Read" for tape images, "Boot" for disk images. The difference is partly historical convention but also reflects the fact that a "Boot" operation is more limited: paper tapes were designed to be completely loaded into memory, whereas bootable disks are designed for only the first sector to be loaded and executed. Also, paper tape images are now flagged as non-auto-starting, because they often require some user action (eg, loading another tape, setting some switches, etc), whereas disk boot sectors are flagged as auto-starting (see the fStart parameter of the loadImage() interface in the RAM component).
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5160 Numerous changes to make paper tape configurations more consistent with disk configurations. This allows all devices to share the machine-wide "autoMount" configuration object, now that the PC11 has a proper device name ("PTR"), making its properties distinguishable from those for RK11 and RL11 drives (eg, "RK0", "RL0", etc). And all the tape/disk components now use "Load" functions to connect a tape or disk to a device ("Attach" is deprecated). And finally, all tape/disk components now support operations to deposit their media directly into memory -- although in this case, the names of the operations are necessarily different: "Read" for tape images, "Boot" for disk images. The difference is partly historical convention but also reflects the fact that a "Boot" operation is more limited: paper tapes were designed to be completely loaded into memory, whereas bootable disks are designed for only the first sector to be loaded and executed. Also, paper tape images are now flagged as non-auto-starting, because they often require some user action (eg, loading another tape, setting some switches, etc), whereas disk boot sectors are flagged as auto-starting (see the fStart parameter of the loadImage() interface in the RAM component). 2016-12-03 14:49:51 -08:00
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README.md README updates 2016-06-06 09:17:25 -07:00

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IBM PC Machine Configurations

PCjs supports these early IBM PC Machines:

PCjs also supports IBM PC-compatibles such as:

Ready-To-Run App Demos

Machines from our IBM PC Application Archive:

Ready-To-Boot Disk Demos

Selected machines from our IBM PC Disk Library:

IBM PC Machines

Shortcuts to most of the preconfigured IBM PC machines in the project are listed below. Some of them include a predefined state, which automatically restores the machine and the specified application to an initial state, while others include a hard disk with preinstalled software.

However, most simply boot an early version of DOS, and the hard disk, if any, will generally be unformatted. From there, you can load other disks from the Disk Library (or mount your own disks) and install other software.

IBM PC 5150 Machines

IBM PC XT 5160 Machines

IBM PC AT 5170 Machines