The Olivetti PC 1 was designed to be a family computer and Olivetti’s answer to the Amstrad PC 1512.
It uses the TV screen instead of a special monitor, but one could be used if you wanted to use one. It was sold with a mouse.
No internal slot : to use ISA cards, an expansion box had to be connected onto the expansion connector. This device supplied two 8-bit ISA slots, hard disk connector (for a 20 mb hard disk, 85 ms) and 128 KB ram. It runs under MS DOS 3.2.
The most particular feature is the disk-drives mounted above the keyboard. The computer was sold with 1 or 2 of them.
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I still have one of these, it has not the DD floppy drives$ it has two 1.44MB DSHD drives. Oh, and just giving it a power on test before deciding what to do with it, you have the option on boot, during POST, as to whether or not to use Turbo Mode.
Now I know it works, I think I''ll blow the dust off a couple shrinkwrapped disks and load the thing up with DOS EDIT. After all, you don''t need four cores and 8GB of RAM just to type a document, right? For that matter I could go completely retro and do my HTML coding on the thing as well!
Tuesday 31st March 2015
Jim Moore (England)
I did not know that this did Olivetti computer to compete with the Amstrad PC 1512, not least because I got to use both computers at the same time!
Monday 2nd June 2014
Pedro Renato (Portugal)
I did not know that this did Olivetti computer to compete with the Amstrad PC 1512, not least because I got to use both computers at the same time!
Monday 2nd June 2014
Pedro Renato (Portugal)
NAME
PC 1
MANUFACTURER
Olivetti
TYPE
Home Computer
ORIGIN
Italy
YEAR
1988
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
None
KEYBOARD
Full-stroke 82 keys with 10 functions keys and numeric keypad
