vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca (11/21/90)
I've seen in an old issue of "kilobaud microcomputing" an ad from Digital Research stating that CP/M 86 could operate on an IBM DisplayWriter. Does anyone have a bootable CP/M 86 that can operate on a DisplayWriter? Also, if this is true, what CP/M software is available? A friend has a nice unit he got for nothing and it makes a nifty word processor, but if it can work as a computer as well... that would be great. All he has with it is a self-booting word processor disk which has only rudimentary DOS functions like delete file. thanks very much vic spicer
vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca (12/25/90)
Hello net world. I recently found CP/M 86 for the IBM DisplayWriter. It appears to function well and makes what was otherwise a word processor into a real computer of sorts. In the setup.cmd program it has configurations for communication ports which it can't detect. From this I presume the DisplayWriter can have communucation ports but this unit doesn't. Any ideas where I can find such a board? Hopefully they are standard RS232's. Also of course now we need software. Does anyone out there have anything for CP/M 86 formatted to a DisplayWriter readable 8" disk. The stuff of interest would be: some sort of database (dbase 2?) some sort of spreadsheet (supercalc?) programming languages (mbasic, pl/1, fortran, cbasic, pascal) communications program to go with serial board maybe i'm working on the silly assumption that such stuff actually made it to CP/M 86, but it seems to be a pretty good, fast OS. also, does anyone have some technical specs on the DisplayWriter? We didn't get any manuals with it. thanks and have a good holiday vic spicer
slsw2@cc.usu.edu (12/28/90)
In article <1990Dec24.162439.6459@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes: > Also of course now we need software. Does anyone out there have anything > for CP/M 86 formatted to a DisplayWriter readable 8" disk. I think that any old 8" SSSD CP/M disk will be readable by the thing. > The stuff of > interest would be: > some sort of database (dbase 2?) > some sort of spreadsheet (supercalc?) > programming languages (mbasic, pl/1, fortran, cbasic, pascal) > communications program to go with serial board > > maybe i'm working on the silly assumption that such stuff actually made > it to CP/M 86, but it seems to be a pretty good, fast OS. also, does > anyone have some technical specs on the DisplayWriter? We didn't get any > manuals with it. I know that spreadsheets, programming languages, and communications programs made it to CP/M-86. I've seen (but, alas, don't have) Microsoft's MultiPlan, a C compiler or two, and I've got KERMIT for my Rainbow. The old Turbo Pascal manual (you know, version 3.01A and before; when it was good) has a section on CP/M-86. I wouldn't be surprised if you could still get CP/M-86 Turbo from Borland; it was only a few years ago that I ordered 8" CP/M-80 Turbo from them. Glad to hear you've got it running. -- =============================================================================== Roger Ivie 35 S 300 W Logan, Ut. 84321 (801) 752-8633 ===============================================================================