IBM Displaywriter with keyboard, monitor and dual 8-inch floppy disk drive
Developer
IBM
Manufacturer
IBM
Type
Microcomputer
Release date
June 1980 (1980-06)[1]
Introductory price
US$7,895 (equivalent to $29,200 in 2023) Leased for US$275 (equivalent to $1,020 in 2023) a month
Operating system
Textpack
CPU
Intel 8086 @ 5 MHz
Memory
128 KB – 448 KB
Display
25-line (640x400) 66-line (800x1056)
Related
IBM System/23 Datamaster
The IBM 6580 Displaywriter System is a 16-bit microcomputer that was marketed and sold by IBM's Office Products Division primarily as a word processor. Announced on June 17, 1980[1][2] and effectively withdrawn from marketing on July 2, 1986,[3] the system was sold with a 5 MHz Intel 8086, 128 KB to 448 KB of RAM, a swivel-mounted monochrome CRT monitor, a detached keyboard, a detached 8" floppy disk drive enclosure with one or two drives, and a detached daisy wheel printer, or Selectric typewriter printer. The primary operating system for the Displaywriter is IBM's internally developed word processing software titled "Textpack", but UCSD p-System,[4][2] CP/M-86,[5] and MS-DOS were also offered by IBM, Digital Research, and CompuSystems, respectively.
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