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Olivetti ETS 1010
Computers
Professional Computer
Italy
Intel 8088
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ETS 1010 /media/museum/photos/olivetti_006a_1.jpg /companies/olivetti Olivetti
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NAME ETS 1010
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MANUFACTURER Olivetti
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TYPE Professional Computer
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ORIGIN Italy
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YEAR ??? Unknow
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BUILT IN LANGUAGE Unknow
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KEYBOARD Unknow
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CPU Intel 8088
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SPEED Unknow
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RAM 128 KB
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ROM Unknown
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TEXT MODES Unknow
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GRAPHIC MODES Unknow
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COLORS greenish monochrome monitor
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SOUND Unknown
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SIZE / WEIGHT 15 x 13 x 7 inches
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I/O PORTS Communication port, Cabinet socket, Keyboard socket, Monitor socket, Power input
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BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 5''1/4 disk-drives
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OS Olivetti own OS which was actually CPM/86 customised.
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POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU
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PERIPHERALS 10 or 20 MB hard disk, daisy wheel printer
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PRICE Unknow
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REAR /media/museum/photos/olivetti_006a_2.jpg
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https://web.archive.org/web/20221129111056/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=491 2022-11-29

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.


Contributor: Robert Scrivener, Dr. Joachim Mueller, Charles Moss

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