IBM Displaywriter software? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Dec 2012

Al,

I'm away for the holidays, but could have a rummage at TNMoC when I return.  My next
day at Bletchley won't be until the 12th.  But do nag me if you don't hear back. 
I know we have at least one system, but its in storage.  It would likely have arrived with
some media.  The media would have been directed off into the archive section.  That makes
me think it likely we'll have something.

--Colin

Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:

...
 Is there an image archive of software for the
Displaywriter somewhere?
Someone donated one to the Computer History Museum recently, and I went through our
archives and have
only come up with a bunch of versions of the CE disk and a single TEXT PACK 1 diskette.

I did image what we have, and put it up under http://bitsavers.org/bits/IBM/Displaywriter

One thing I discovered was you HAVE to degauss the floppy before cloning the CE diskette.
It expects tracks 37, 41 and 43
to be blank or it hangs.