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Stefanie Kelly

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Hi everyone. My name is Stefanie and I am new to the forum! I have a good question for my fellow computer geeks...I have an IBM 5324. Does anyone have any more info about this machine and how much it could be worth?? I have found nothing about it anywhere and Im going crazy:crazy: any help would be AWESOME!
 

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No idea what it is. Looks like its not a full machine but some kind of expansion box. Post some decent picture of the front and back with close ups of the part numbers. Connectors tell us a lot and you haven't snapped them.
 
Looks drive unit from a Displaywriter a wordprocessing / gen purpose office computer. No graphics. The original displaywriter software would have been used on this and terminal emulation 3270. Not ibm dos but of the same time as the ibm 5150 pc. this would appear in the series /1 catalog I bet.
 
billdeg said:
Looks drive unit from a Displaywriter a wordprocessing / gen purpose office computer. No graphics. The original displaywriter software would have been used on this and terminal emulation 3270. Not ibm dos but of the same time as the ibm 5150 pc. this would appear in the series /1 catalog I bet.
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I thought that at first, but its not!. Look at the announcement letter in my post a above. Its a System/23 with an 8085CPU and on-chop Basic so may not need a disk drive....
 
billdeg said:
Looks drive unit from a Displaywriter a wordprocessing / gen purpose office computer. No graphics. The original displaywriter software would have been used on this and terminal emulation 3270. Not ibm dos but of the same time as the ibm 5150 pc. this would appear in the series /1 catalog I bet.
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As has said it is not a Displaywriter System (Machine Type - 6580). Nor was a Displaywriter a "gen purpose office computer", it was a dedicated word processor. Displaywriter did not have an operating system as such. The system control program and application software were essentially not divisible.

BTW, I can't see what this has to do with Series/1.
 
Beerhunter said:
As has said it is not a Displaywriter System (Machine Type - 6580). Nor was a Displaywriter a "gen purpose office computer", it was a dedicated word processor. Displaywriter did not have an operating system as such. The system control program and application software were essentially not divisible.

BTW, I can't see what this has to do with Series/1.
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There apparently was a version of CP/M-86 that could be shoehorned into a Displaywriter--and some third-party programs, such as VEDIT were also available for the platform. But, as you say, it has nothing to do with Series/1.
 
nigwil said:
IBM Displaywriter had CP/M-86 and UCSD p-System and almost but not quite MS-DOS (the BIOS was ported but MS-DOS was not released as an official product).
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I was the Branch Specialist back then and although CP/M-86 was indeed available from a third-party and I heard that and UCSD p-System was too, I never saw either in use.
 
We have found two references to actual use of CP/M-86 and UCSD p-System. For several months I thought too the p-System was a product without ever being delivered/used on the Displaywriter, but we also found a reference to someone who saw it in action on the Displaywriter.

I will try to track down the references and follow-up here.
 
Stefanie Kelly said:
Hi everyone. My name is Stefanie and I am new to the forum! I have a good question for my fellow computer geeks...I have an IBM 5324. Does anyone have any more info about this machine and how much it could be worth?? I have found nothing about it anywhere and Im going crazy:crazy: any help would be AWESOME!
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Stefanie - I just came across your Vintage Computer post from 2013 wanting info on your IBM 5234 unit…do you still have it? I know all about the 5234 as I was the IBM industrial designer on the project in 1979-80.
 
TommyRay said:
Stefanie - I just came across your Vintage Computer post from 2013 wanting info on your IBM 5234 unit…do you still have it? I know all about the 5234 as I was the IBM industrial designer on the project in 1979-80.
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We have a pair of 5324s at LSSM that we'll be looking into restoring soon. We have system units and monitors, but I don't know if we have the keyboards. Would you happen to know of any that might be available?

-Dave McGuire, LSSM
 
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