Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!njsmu.UUCP!klg From: klg@njsmu.UUCP (Kenneth Goodwin) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: IBM Displaywriter Message-ID: <8807301219.AA03884@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 29 Jul 88 20:23:13 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Kenneth Goodwin Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 We have the need to transfer textual information off of 8 inch diskettes written by an IBM Displaywriter word processor. This WP has no modem or tape drive which we can use and the format of the diskettes is unknown to us. Does anyone have any suggestions on where we can go to get these diskettes converted to a more portable format? We can read Macintosh 3.5 inch and IBM PC 5.25 inch diskettes and standard 9 track tape. We have sufficent modem capacity to suck it on down a phone line. We also have a xerox 860 word processor that has 8 inch diskette drives but we don't think they are compatible with IBM's..... Knowing the actual format of the diskette - TPI/density single sided/dual sided might help as well. The company that owns this beast knows nothing about it other than how to push the buttons to get it to Word Process"" for them, so they are no help at all. Does anyone out there have one of these things who could help us out with a little info? Thanks in Advance...... Ken Goodwin Till Darkness Falls and Victory is Lost! NJ State Medical Underwriters, Inc. Lawrenceville, New Jersey