IBM PC BASIC Reference (May 1984)
The IBM Personal Computer BASIC Reference, Third Edition, May 1984, IBM part number 6361134. 497 pages.
Note the edition: the page title dates it May 1984, which is correct, but it is the third edition, not the first.
What it contains
[edit | edit source]The complete language reference for IBM Personal Computer BASIC — every command, statement, function and variable, with syntax, remarks, worked examples and the error message list. It is the detailed book that the Quick Reference summarises.
What it does not contain
[edit | edit source]No text layer — an image-only scan of 497 pages, so it cannot be searched.
No hardware content of any kind. No rail voltages, no connector pinouts, no FRU numbers, no schematics, no component values. It is a programming manual and belongs in the same category as the machine's software documentation rather than its service documentation.
Download it here: IBM PC BASIC Reference May84.pdf