In addition to the Zilog Z80A processor clocked at 4 MHz, the Visual 1050 also included a MOS Technology 6502 used as a graphics coprocessor.
[3][4] The Visual 1050 featured a dual-processor architecture; Z80A processor as the main CPU and a 6502 to drive the display.
The display offered programmable features which could be invoked from the main processing unit via a character-stream interface built in between the Z80 CPU and 6502 coprocessor.
[7] The machine had a Keytronic full stroke 93-key keyboard with numeric keypad and 17 function keys.
[7] A standard Visual 1050 shipped with CP/M Plus operating system, a CP/M source disk, a copy of WordStar word processor with MailMerge software, Microsoft Multiplan spreadsheet, Digital Research DR Graph charting software, Digital Research CBASIC computer language, and an RS-232C communications program.