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title: Olivetti ETS 1010
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Italy
cpus:
- Intel 8088
params:
name: ETS 1010
image: /media/museum/photos/olivetti_006a_1.jpg
company: /companies/olivetti
company_name: Olivetti
specs:
- label: NAME
value: ETS 1010
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Olivetti
- label: TYPE
value: Professional Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Italy
- label: YEAR
value: ??? Unknow
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: Unknow
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Unknow
- label: CPU
value: Intel 8088
- label: SPEED
value: Unknow
- label: RAM
value: 128 KB
- label: ROM
value: Unknown
- label: TEXT MODES
value: Unknow
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: Unknow
- label: COLORS
value: greenish monochrome monitor
- label: SOUND
value: Unknown
- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
value: 15 x 13 x 7 inches
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Communication port, Cabinet socket, Keyboard socket, Monitor socket, Power input
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: 2 x 5''1/4 disk-drives
- label: OS
value: Olivetti own OS which was actually CPM/86 customised.
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in PSU
- label: PERIPHERALS
value: 10 or 20 MB hard disk, daisy wheel printer
- label: PRICE
value: Unknow
tabs:
- photos
photos:
- title: REAR
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/olivetti_006a_2.jpg
comments:
- author: LubikCZ (Liberec / Czech republic)
date: Wednesday 26th October 2016
text: Hello, I would like to ask about on the type designation of the keyboard to the computer Olivetti ETS 2010 (http://www.storiaolivetti.it/upload/ets2010_a.jpg). I have this computer and monitor, but I do not have a keyboard, and here in the Czech Republic can not get and therefore need to look around Europe and farther into the world. Thank you for your help. Sincerely Lubos Janku of the Czech Republic.
- author: James Dye (New Jersey, USA)
date: Sunday 2nd December 2012
text: I worked at Syntrex 1985-86 on the production floor and in customer service. Most of the units we built had zodiac names. The terminals were called Aquarius and I think the hard drive cabinets were Geminis. The hard drives were huge, like a suit case, and about 150 meg each. The smaller ones were just coming out in 1986 and were about the same physical size of the ones made now at 10-30 meg.
- author: Davo
date: Monday 16th January 2012
text: I actually worked for the company that made these for Olivetti. They were made in Eatintown nJ by Syntrex Inc. The os was a proprietory one called SOS and was somewhat like a unix system. The features were ahead if the times.
- author: Philip (england)
date: Sunday 26th June 2011
text: |-
In a way it was ahead of its time, you could split the screen in two and work on two different documents at one time.\
I used the keyboard and tractor printer, the keys on the keyboard were a bit inclined to break if you had a heavy touch (years of manual typewriters), but we finally moved on to dos, and a different way of working was born.
- author: Charles Moss
date: Wednesday 10th February 2010
text: About the Olivetti ETS1010, I used one for a few years. It was a great machine.
- author: Jonahtan (manchester)
date: Thursday 3rd February 2005
text: |-
i have the exact same problem except i'm trying to put in a floppy disk drive\
is there anychance we could team up and solve this conundrum? lol
- author: Bill Mutch (surrey UK)
date: Wednesday 10th July 2002
text: |-
Have just rebuilt an "olivetti PCS 44/C"\
and need access to the "cmos" or bios to tell it it has a new harddrive, but I don't know the key to access the cmos?
Also does anyone know of the size of disk you are limited to in an old box like this?
At last I may be getting somewhere\
Thanks in advance\
Bill
oc_id: 491
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221129111056/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=491
date: '2022-11-29'
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This Word Processor was originally produced by Syntrex Inc. Eatontown, New Jersey and sold under the brand of Olivetti. This was in 1980 (Version 1 of Syntrex Operating System was not sold); in 1981 the completely redesigned Version was sold with the system worldwide.
The picture shows the base unit of the ETS 1010 (Electronic Typing System) It came with a display unit and one could attach an electronic typewriter (usually an ET121 or ET221) or a keyboard.
The cabinet socket plugged into a central storage device which could support 8 or 16 ETS units at a time plus 2 printers. There was a 10 MB hard drive option (later 20 MB Winchester HDD) which was the size of a chest freezer.
A variety of daisy wheel printers could be used with the system: PR430 / DY310 / DY450 / ET121 / ET221
There also existed an ETS2010 which was an updated version. It used an 80186 CPU, had more memory and was compabitable with all data on ETS1010.
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**Contributor**: Robert Scrivener, Dr. Joachim Mueller, Charles Moss
<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>