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The Olivetti Company – By Bradford Morgan White

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-olivetti-company
34•rbanffy•6d ago

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N19PEDL2•6d ago
Very interesting article. I still have a working Olivetti M24 at home that I occasionally turn on just for the sake of nostalgia.
rbanffy•5d ago
They made some beautiful computers. I really want to, eventually, get an M20, or wait until 3D printers get good enough to print one. ;-)
pan69•1h ago
The M24 was the first computer my family purchased. My dad worked for a bank and in the mid eighties they were modernising that bank and offered employees an option to buy a PC. Since contract went to Olivetti, we got the M24. I remember the evening we picked it up and installed it on the living room table, but I can't clearly remember what year that was, I think it was 1986. My first explorations into programming were on that thing. I must have spent countless of hours with it. An 8086, 640kb of RAM and two floppy drives. Good memories.
esafak•1h ago
Our school had an Olivetti PC (286), which was memorable for two reasons: it was faster than my own 286 (surprising because I thought they were running at the same clock speed), and it was the only one. Indeed, it was the only Olivetti PC I'd seen anywhere.
nineteen999•57m ago
My dad would often bring home an Olivetti M21 "portable" (quotes deliberate - that thing weighed a lot). Really gorgeous design for its time though.
mbil•55m ago
The namesake for this emacs minor mode for writing: https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti
nephihaha•54m ago
We had an electric Olivetti typewriter at home when I was growing up before we got a word processor/pc
abcd_f•20m ago
Daaamn... Olivetti.

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An Olivetti PC was an ultimate dream to have in the late 80s and the early 90s for me, in impressionable age of adolescence, prone to the call of tinkering, hacking and programming. They were the brand, at least in Europe.

Such a nice memory :)

Aardwolf•2m ago
My grandmother had a green/blue-ish Olivetti mechanical printing calculator, I have fond memories of trying to figure out how it worked by randomly trying buttons

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