23 Apr
2008
23 Apr
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1:51 p.m.
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I read that there was something sold to make the IBM DisplayWriter
DOS compatible? What would that take?
I have two of these things with a letter quality daisy wheel and the
giant sheet feeder. SuperCalc and TextPack are boring.
Is there anything else that can be done with them? CP/M?
Grant
No. I used to teach Display Write 4 when I worked at IBM, and this came up from time to
time in class. There may be a hack where you send the print output to a memory buffer,
etc., but nothing official.
Bill
23 Apr
23 Apr
8:05 p.m.
If there was a package that could make the Displaywriter work as a
terminal for a PC, then the marketing people would probably market that PC
as "a peripheral for your DisplayWriter that lets your DisplayWriter run
DOS"!
I'm serious.
Exactly that was done to peddle Ampro LittleBoards, Quarks, etc. to
Macintosh owners! "A drive that you can add to your Macintosh, that lets
your Macintosh run PC software".
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
24 Apr
24 Apr
5:08 p.m.
Speaking of Ampro Littleboards...they're probably the
easiest way to render a DWer peecee compatible. Open
it up, *drop* one in...and wala. You'll need a new
keyboard presumably, and I'm assuming the monitor
supplied is roughly equivalent to a 5151. And the
Littleboards could take ISA-8 bit cards...via the
edition of a *motherboard* if you will.
--- Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
If there was a package that could make the
Displaywriter work as a
terminal for a PC, then the marketing people would
probably market that PC
as "a peripheral for your DisplayWriter that lets
your DisplayWriter run
DOS"!
I'm serious.
Exactly that was done to peddle Ampro LittleBoards,
Quarks, etc. to
Macintosh owners! "A drive that you can add to
your Macintosh, that lets
your Macintosh run PC software".
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
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25 Apr
25 Apr
7:58 p.m.
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Chris M wrote:
Speaking of Ampro Littleboards...they're probably
the
easiest way to render a DWer peecee compatible. Open
it up, *drop* one in...and wala. You'll need a new
keyboard presumably, and I'm assuming the monitor
supplied is roughly equivalent to a 5151. And the
Littleboards could take ISA-8 bit cards...via the
edition of a *motherboard* if you will.
Somebody said that there was already software for the DW to use it as the
keyboard and screen for a running PC.
There were a few other similar machine, but the LB was the most popular.
With a LB, you could not only make a DW capable of running PC software,
you could do the same for a keyboard, a printer, a TV set, a table, a
kitchen sink, . . .
23 Apr
23 Apr
10:58 p.m.
No. I used to teach Display Write 4 when I worked at
IBM, and this
came up from time to time in class. There may be a hack where you
send the print output to a memory buffer, etc., but nothing official.
Bill
So it really is a huge word processor... : (
I'm going to write a few messages on usenet about needing a
DisplayWriter for time traveling and then sell it on e-bay. ; )
How common are these things? Are they valuable beyond $15-$20? I
had to pay $15 or $20, I can't remember, because that's how much it
was worth to the computer killing company. Could have walked out
with a pallet of laptops for that price. ; )
Grant
24 Apr
24 Apr
2:38 p.m.
So it really is a huge word processor... : (
I'm going to write a few messages on usenet about needing a DisplayWriter
for time traveling and then sell it on e-bay. ; )
How common are these things? Are they valuable beyond $15-$20? I had to
pay $15 or $20, I can't remember, because that's how much it was worth to
the computer killing company. Could have walked out with a pallet of
laptops for that price. ; )
It is a big Word Processor. I think collectible because there are few left.
It did have serial ports ISTR. I had several of them go through my
hands in the early 90s.
Very poor scrap. They used IBM mainframe technology for the circuit
cards, not discrete ICs. and I think there are only two to four small
cards for all the plastic, huge unrecycleable filled plastic castings.
It is probably only valuable as a complete unit with the printer,
drives, Monitor/CPU and keyboard. Its major negative value is the
size. Otherwise I bet there would be a computer museum interested.
Paul Pierce in Portland Oregon has several word processing units for
his future museum.
Paxton
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