17 Oct
2021
17 Oct
'21
1:39 p.m.
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/IBM/Displaywriter/SSSD_20210926/MSDOS.IMD
I have a copy of the disk this image was made from booted on my DW, and am
trying to load easywriter or a little basrun compatible basic program onto
an 8" disk with my greaseweazle.
Not having much luck with the HxC software or winimage poking at that
image, or loading what I would think would be compatible DOS disks on the
DW.
Does anyone have some pointers on tools to help me read this image, and
make new images and add files?
Thanks,
-Eric
17 Oct
17 Oct
2:07 p.m.
The Displaywriter is not natively DOS based, but I assume you know this and
that's not what you are saying. Instead someone internally at IBM or
otherwise ported DOS 1.25 for a non native system (the Displaywriter). In
short I dont know of any IBM MS DOS 1.25 for Diplsaywtiter, at.least when
I worked at IBM and they had Dipslaywriters in the Customer Center in
Wilm., DE.
Interesting. Coincidentally I did build a bootable 8" DOS disk just for
the fun of it but it was DOS 6.22. The 80 vs 77 tracks issue came.up.
Good.luck :-)
Bill
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 4:40 PM Eric Moore via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/IBM/Displaywriter/SSSD_20210926/MSDOS.IMD
I have a copy of the disk this image was made from booted on my DW, and am
trying to load easywriter or a little basrun compatible basic program onto
an 8" disk with my greaseweazle.
Not having much luck with the HxC software or winimage poking at that
image, or loading what I would think would be compatible DOS disks on the
DW.
Does anyone have some pointers on tools to help me read this image, and
make new images and add files?
Thanks,
-Eric
2:13 p.m.
Yep, the link below is the disk image of MS-DOS ported to the
displaywriter. I have it booting fine, but my attempts to write a new disk
from the greaseweazel with some dos software to try
running is not going
well.
The tool I usually use to open DOS disk images and add files does not like
that disk image, so looking for any tips on creating compatible images I
can write with my greaseweazle.
-Eric
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 4:08 PM Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
The Displaywriter is not natively DOS based, but I
assume you know this
and that's not what you are saying. Instead someone internally at IBM or
otherwise ported DOS 1.25 for a non native system (the Displaywriter).
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 4:40 PM Eric Moore via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/IBM/Displaywriter/SSSD_20210926/MSDOS.IMD
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