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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Glenn E Welman, Lexington, KY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395700 ; 3642802 ; 3649752 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A personal computer when attempting to boot from a diskette (5) searches the boot record of the diskette for com. When found, com and the eight characters preceding com in the boot record are compared with the first two entries of the directory of the diskette. If no match is found, the personal computer responds on the basis of the diskette being a data diskette. Otherwise, the personal computer executes the boot record of the diskette. This minimizes error messages and operator involvement.