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From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: IBM Displaywriter
Message-ID: <1129@garth.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 88 18:09:08 GMT
References: <459@njsmu.UUCP>
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In article <459@njsmu.UUCP> klg@njsmu.UUCP (Kenneth Goodwin) writes:
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>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.

IBM has provided a very nice way of making the transfer.  (though it does
involve buying an IBM mainframe and network...)  With an SNA connection,
you can upload your documents using HDDI.  Then you can download them
to a PC using something like PROFS-PC Connection.  They'll still be in
DCA RFT format, so you can load them into Displaywrite III on the PC.
From there you can convert to whatever PC or Mac word processor you want
to use - with most of the formatting information intact.

Assuming you have no IBM mainframe, perhaps a service bureau could upload
and download your diskettes for you.  It would probably be cheaper than
doing all the conversions manually and using the Displaywriter's VT-100
emulation.  (Before I tried that for more than a couple dozen documents,
I'd print them and scan them into the new system.)
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