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Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: D-EJ915 on Mon, 30 August 2010, 22:35:23

http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Vintage-Computing-/11189/i.html?_catref=1&_fln=1&_ipg=25&_ssn=cieinternational&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: HaaTa on Tue, 31 August 2010, 00:51:30

Want...I think I'm gonna go for it.

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: Shawn Stanford on Tue, 31 August 2010, 05:24:39

IIRC: DisplayWriters used a 12" floppy, not an 8". It was a piece adapted from the Series/1.

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: ch_123 on Tue, 31 August 2010, 05:34:59

Every description I have seen of it (including the IBM one) said that it used 8" disks.

I didn't even know that there were such things as 12" floppy disks.

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: ThirdLap on Tue, 31 August 2010, 05:59:30

Quote from: ch_123;218461

I didn't even know that there were such things as 12" floppy disks.

Some early IBM mainframes used 12" floppies, but I too thought the Displaywriter used eight inchers. :confused:

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: didjamatic on Tue, 31 August 2010, 08:05:32

Wow, awesome!  Too bad they're split up in different auctions.

I have a DS keyboard and it's seriously heavy and awesome.  One day I really hope to get it to work on a PC.

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: JBert on Tue, 31 August 2010, 14:33:45

I rather hope to get such a thing one day without going broke. On the other hand, getting it to work seems rather trivial due to its parallel interface.

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: Shawn Stanford on Tue, 31 August 2010, 17:51:52

Ignore me: I'm smoking crack today. 8" floppy...

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: microsoft windows on Tue, 31 August 2010, 17:59:16

(http://www.ciesurplus.com/images/_items/V00294354524000010074-001.jpg)
Those things always reminded me of toasters...

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: EverythingIBM on Tue, 31 August 2010, 18:16:10

This is making me really wish my school had the whole display writer equipment rather than just the boring module.

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: JBert on Wed, 01 September 2010, 13:34:48

Quote from: HaaTa;218436

Want...I think I'm gonna go for it.

Go for it. Shipping to my door would be $100...

Title: IBM Displaywriter stuff
Post by: HaaTa on Thu, 02 September 2010, 00:21:32

Yay! I won.

Now to use the funds that Paypal had locked away for so long...


Hmm, $30 after all is said and done. Not too bad. Actually my cheapest board yet.