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Offline D-EJ915

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Offline HaaTa

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« Reply #1 on: Tue, 31 August 2010, 00:51:30 »
Want...I think I'm gonna go for it.
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Offline Shawn Stanford

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« Reply #2 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.
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« Reply #3 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.
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« Reply #4 on: Tue, 31 August 2010, 05:59:30 »
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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:
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« Reply #5 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.
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Offline JBert

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« Reply #6 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.
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Offline Shawn Stanford

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« Reply #7 on: Tue, 31 August 2010, 17:51:52 »
Ignore me: I'm smoking crack today. 8" floppy...
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« Reply #8 on: Tue, 31 August 2010, 17:59:16 »

Those things always reminded me of toasters...
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Offline EverythingIBM

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« Reply #9 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.
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Offline JBert

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« Reply #10 on: Wed, 01 September 2010, 13:34:48 »
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Want...I think I'm gonna go for it.
Go for it. Shipping to my door would be $100...
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« Reply #11 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.
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