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Olivetti ETS 1010	Computers	Professional Computer	Italy	Intel 8088	name image company company_name specs tabs photos comments oc_id source ETS 1010 /media/museum/photos/olivetti_006a_1.jpg /companies/olivetti Olivetti label value NAME ETS 1010 label value MANUFACTURER Olivetti label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Italy label value YEAR ??? Unknow label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Unknow label value KEYBOARD Unknow label value CPU Intel 8088 label value SPEED Unknow label value RAM 128 KB label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES Unknow label value GRAPHIC MODES Unknow label value COLORS greenish monochrome monitor label value SOUND Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT 15 x 13 x 7 inches label value I/O PORTS Communication port, Cabinet socket, Keyboard socket, Monitor socket, Power input label value BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 5''1/4 disk-drives label value OS Olivetti own OS which was actually CPM/86 customised. label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU label value PERIPHERALS 10 or 20 MB hard disk, daisy wheel printer label value PRICE Unknow photos title subtitle text image REAR /media/museum/photos/olivetti_006a_2.jpg author date text LubikCZ (Liberec / Czech republic) Wednesday 26th October 2016 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 date text James Dye (New Jersey, USA) Sunday 2nd December 2012 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 date text Davo Monday 16th January 2012 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 date text Philip (england) Sunday 26th June 2011 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 date text Charles Moss Wednesday 10th February 2010 About the Olivetti ETS1010, I used one for a few years. It was a great machine. author date text Jonahtan (manchester) Thursday 3rd February 2005 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 date text Bill Mutch (surrey UK) Wednesday 10th July 2002 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 491 url date 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.

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

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