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[Chuck Hallenbeck]

There was also a dos utility called "cmos-ram" as I recall, which copied 
the cmos to an editable text file, and copied it back again. So if you 
knew the format of the file, you could make changes easily.


On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:42:25AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> By IBM PC do you mean a machine made by IBM, or a machine compatible
> with that architecture? If you are referring to a compatible machine,
> then this should still be doable I think either with a DOS/win9x boot
> disk, or it should even be doable with gdb under GNU/Linux. Do you
> remember what the memory address was?
> 
> Also, I just remembered that there were some 486 machines, and even
> some early 586 machines that let you get into bios via a hotkey
> sequence from within DOS. I remember using one such machine with
> provox7, and while the accessibility wasn't great, because the numpad
> review functionality went away as soon as you used that hotkey
> combination to get into bios, it still did do the job, since every
> single key press read the full screen from what I recall, which
> incidentally, was in columns as well.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:07:33AM -0400, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:
> > The IBM PC used to have a way to access the BIOS using debug under MSDOS.
> > You just typed in the memory address and the BIOS program came up and Using 
> > ASAP I was able to make any changes I needed.
> > It was reading the same interface that my sighted friends were using.
> > 
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