IBM Displaywriter System
IBM Displaywriter with keyboard, monitor and dual 8-inch floppy disk drive | |
| Developer | IBM |
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| Manufacturer | IBM |
| Type | Microcomputer |
| Release date | June 1980 |
| Introductory price | US$7,895 (equivalent to $30,100 in 2024) Leased for US$275 (equivalent to $1,050 in 2024) 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 Announced on June 17, 1980 and effectively withdrawn from marketing on July 2, 1986, the system was sold with a 5 MHz Intel 8086, 128 KB to 448 KB of RAM, a swivel-mounted monochrome CRT monitor, a detached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, CP/M-86, and MS-DOS were also offered by IBM, Digital Research, and CompuSystems, respectively.