US$4,200−10,000 with screen, printer, and keyboard.
Operating system
Japanese DOS or OS/2
CPU
Intel 8086 @ 8 MHz
Memory
256 kB RAM (expandable to 512 kB)
Display
15-inch CRT display (41×25 text with full-width characters)
Graphics
1024×768 graphics monochrome or 360×512 in four colors
Predecessor
IBM System/23 Datamaster
Successor
IBM Personal System/55 IBM JX
IBM 5540, 5550, 5560 – Japanese-language advert in ASCII, July 1986 issue
IBM 5550 is a personal computer series that IBM marketed in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China in the 1980s and 1990s, for business use customers. In Japan, it was introduced in 1983 and promoted as "Multistation 5550 (マルチステーション5550)" because it had three roles in one machine: a PC, a word processing machine which was traditionally marketed as a machine different from a PC in Japan, and an IBM-host attached terminal.
^Chronology of IBM Personal Computers (1983-1986), Ken Polsson Archived March 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, 1983, March 15, IBM Japan announces the IBM 5550 Multistation in Japan. It features an 8 MHz Intel 8086 microprocessor, 256 kB RAM (expandable to 512 kB), up to three 640 kB capacity floppy drives, display with 1024x768 graphics monochrome or 360x512 in four colors, for US$4200-10000 with screen, printer, and keyboard. [902.144] [1314.D4
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