IBM System/23 Datamaster
Physical Object
2021.04.24.16
"Announced by GSD in July 1981 — one month before the IBM Personal Computer — the System/23 Datamaster was another demonstration of IBM's efforts to shrink the size and cost of computing. The new system combined word processing and data processing in a machine to give small businesses the big benefits of information processing.
With a viewing screen, keyboard and diskette drives packaged in a single desktop console, the Datamaster was designed to be taken out of the carton, set up, checked out and operated by first-time users. It offered a choice of two printers, up to 4.4 megabytes of diskette storage, along with Business Management Accounting and Word Processing programming.
The IBM System/23 Datamaster could include two computer workstations (as shown above), which permitted two people to use the system simultaneously. Datamaster could be used for a wide variety of commercial applications in both small businesses and larger companies with standalone data processing needs within departments."