IBM DisplayWriter DOS

Bill Degnan billdeg at degnanco.com
Wed Apr 23 12:51:47 CDT 2008


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> I read that there was something sold to make the IBM DisplayWriter 
> DOS compatible?  What would that take?
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> I have two of these things with a letter quality daisy wheel and the 
> giant sheet feeder.  SuperCalc and TextPack are boring.
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> Is there anything else that can be done with them?  CP/M?
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> Grant
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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







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