23 Apr
2008
23 Apr
'08
8:16 a.m.
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:54:56 -0800
From: Grant Stockly
I read that there was something sold to make the IBM
DisplayWriter
DOS compatible? What would that take?
There were versions of some DOS programs that would run on the DW,
such as VEDIT come to mind.
Unless my memory is faultly, one of the hurdles that you're likely to
run into is that the system (including that daisy wheel) is EBCDIC-
based, not ASCII.
But I don't think it's impossible to get MS-DOS going on one; it
wouldn't surprise me if someone actually did at some point. "PC
compatible" MS-DOS is a whole 'nother matter, however.
IIRC, IBM had a setup that would allow one to attach a PC to a DW and
use the DW keyboard and display to run DOS applications on the PC.
Cheers,
Chuck