Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!mojo
From: mojo@reed.UUCP (macsyma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help with an IBM compatible.
Message-ID: <8555@reed.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 09:04:32 GMT
References: <8803241628.AA04994@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: mojo@reed.UUCP (macsyma)
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In article <8803241628.AA04994@decwrl.dec.com> al@siouxi.dec.com (Al Taylor, DTN: 232-2470, LOC: ACO/E43) writes:
>I have a Hyperion IBM compatible computer.  It was made in 1984 and the company
>does not exist anymore.  It runs most IBM software with no problems.  When I try
>to run IBM BASIC it hangs up and I have to reboot the system. I have some

This is probably because the Hyperion (like some other clones, notably [I
think] Compaqs) doesn't have cassette basic installed in ROM.  Since BASIC
and BASICA are really addenda to cassette Basic, they won't run on these
machines in the normal fashion.

There is a fix, but I don't remember what it is; it was published in the
Help Screen column of _PC World_ around...early 1986, I think; definitely
between September 1985 and August 1986.  I'm sorry I don't have a more
specific date.
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