Is anyone familiar with the IBM 6731 Diskette Module from around 1984 which
gave the IBM Electronic 85 and 95 Selectric Typewriters the ability to store
created documents to a 5.25" floppy diskette?
There was also a 5.25" diskette which was nicknamed "IPL" for &
My curiosity is “what kind” of boot program did they use, was it some sort of
PC Dos incarnation?
There’s very little info left in IBM’s archives.
I also suppose the IBM Modularity option which plugs into the CPU board of the
electronic typewriter, but that too is an educated guess on my
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 04:06:59 -0800, D. Resor via cctalk wrote:
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> There was also a 5.25" diskette which was nicknamed "IPL" for "initial
> program load", and an interface board which was installed into the
> typewriter and was referred to as the "IBM Typewriter Modularity Option".
>
Hi Don,
Is anyone familiar with the IBM 6731 Diskette Module from around 1984 which
gave the IBM Electronic 85 and 95 Selectric Typewriters the ability to store
created documents to a 5.25" floppy diskette?
There was also a 5.25" diskette which was nicknamed "IPL" for &
