First post, by surrodox2001
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As you don't a medium to load/save data to (it can only use IBM's tape interface), there's not much use for users to program in Cassette BASIC in those machines.
With my guess, I think it's just a leftover from the IBM engineers that forgot to remove the BASIC in ROM thing and just left in there until someone notices.
Discussions are welcomed here. (ps this is my first topic here, so if there's a problem, let me know 😀)
EDIT: Aaand I just totally skim over one thing: Even though Cassette BASIC is no use on these machines, Disk and Advanced BASIC still need them, perhaps that's the reason why it's still there?