5 Dec
2003
5 Dec
'03
7:40 a.m.
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:52, Innfogra(a)aol.com wrote:
IIRC the IBM DisplayWriter. The cables were thin and
came to a non standard
D sub 9 pin. There was a cut sheet feeder that might plug into the other port.
It has been a long time.
I think the System 23 also may have connected to that printer also. There
weren't many IBM daisywheel printers.
If I recall (or old-memory mumbo jumbo, what's the difference) IBM
borrowed the 521x printers from some other system and stuck it on the
Displaywriter project. I vaguely recall something like this said in a
meeting w/IBMers during the MSDOS project. (They were reticent to reveal
proprietary info, but gave me what I needed to get the job done.) The
complexity of the printer protocol was clearly not designed for a "pee
cee" type system.