IBM 6580 "Displaywriter" Word Processor Diskette Unit double slot)
date: label: Date made
content: 1983
label: date made
content: 1985
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: IBM's Office Products Division announced the Displaywriter in June 1980 as an easy-to-use, low-cost desktop text processing system. For further information about the system as a whole and the use of this example, see 2005.0127.01.
label: Description
content: This is a diskette unit for the Displaywriter. It has two slots for 8" floppy disks and is marked IBM 6360. According to museum records, it is the "double slot" version of the device.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert Post
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0127.04
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0127.04
label: accession number
content: 2005.0127
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Computer Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 10 in x 16 in; 29.21 cm x 25.4 cm x 40.64 cm