MS-DOS 1.25 8" Disk Image for Displaywriter

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 16:07:51 CDT 2021


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
>


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