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Greetings from Olivettiland

Gabriele72

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Hi everyone,

...well, although Italy is known more for Ferrari supercars or the ancient Romans, probably, at least here, vintage Olivettis won't be unknown to everyone ;)

I've been into vintage computing since (around) the year 2000, more or less continuosly but with two long pauses I now deeply regret (especially when I think about how many machines must have been trashed in the meanwhile :( ), I've been lurking around the VCForums for ages planning to subscribe, you know when you say "next week I do it" every week? That's it :)

After finally setting up our home museum (now numbering some 200 machines) which I'm going to introduce in the related section, and I'm not even sure if it looks like a home anymore, I've made the big step.
Here I hope to improve and share my repair skills, give and receive advices on how to keep our silicium babies alive forever, and maybe some good trade too (though I'm sure lack of time will end crumbling my intentions, but I'll try to hold on! :) ).
 
Welcome to the forums!

That's quite a collection you got there. 200 machines! I wouldn't call the place you store them a house either. It's nice also to see that vintage computing is alive all over the world, and that machines from those places are being saved.

Enjoy it here!
 
Welcome! :) Sounds like a very cool collection. Congrats on that. 200 is no easy number to manage for the household. Olivetti is neat history wise with their systems getting rebadged for other folks. Sorta like Kyocera. The only Olivetti I own (besides I guess perhaps the AT&T 6300 apparently lol) is an M10 which I bought of Curtis last year at the VCF South.
 
Welcome to the forum! I only have the one machine - an M24 - and to be fair it has been causing me some issues! That said it is one of my favourite computers!

I look forward to hearing more about your collection!
 
Seems Olivetti machines have travelled very far :)

The M24 is a bad beast, a safe would be easier to open and would probably weigh less! Once it took me a whole evening to disassemble one (though I admit I had no guide and didn't know where to start).

The M20 is IMHO the most fascinating of the series, with its stone-age look, its weird Z8000 CPU and its proprietary PCOS. I'm currently trying to service one to which the copper hunters have cut all the cords (lovely guys, aren't they?)
 
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