12 Apr
2007
12 Apr
'07
7:31 p.m.
I'm told my mystery box was made by Olivetti. Remember
the unknown box with the "10 inch" drives.
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12 Apr
12 Apr
11:04 p.m.
On 12 Apr 2007 at 16:31, Chris M wrote:
I'm told my mystery box was made by Olivetti.
Remember
the unknown box with the "10 inch" drives.
No, I don't remember the unknown box. There was the P6060, but that
looked a lot like a word processor, so you probably wouldn't be
asking about that. There were also various bits of Olivetti word
processing, posting machines and whatnot, so it's hard to say exactly
what you do have without more information.
Cheers,
Chuck
13 Apr
13 Apr
3:34 a.m.
Chris M wrote:
I'm told my mystery box was made by Olivetti.
Remember
the unknown box with the "10 inch" drives.
Floppy or hard drives? You've triggered my memory now....
I vaguely recall (I was about 12 at the time I guess!!) my first "big
iron" was a BCS2???. It had a CDC external drive with 1 fixed disk and 1
removable 10MB cartridge. Don't recall the size but I guess 14". No
floppy, tape or other drives.
The machine itself was approx 1m wide, 1m high and 0.5m deep and was
based around a Z80 with an 8080 coprocessor. 192K total RAM IIRC - guess
some sort of paging system was used. The terminal was olivetti too with
a very nice blue phosphor screen.
Ran something called BOSS "British Olivetti System Supervisor" and
wasn't terribly interesting. Also had an RS232 connected dot matrix
printer which outlived the system by several years.
Anybody else know anything more about these systems?
James
5:31 a.m.
I'm told my mystery box was made by Olivetti.
Remember
the unknown box with the "10 inch" drives.
Have you any photo of this unknown box ?
I have a lot of Olivetti documentation.
There are some machines with 8" drive : the old BCS series, the L1
series (M40, M44), an S6000 version and others
I think the oldest is P6066
Alberto.
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3:35 p.m.
The M40 has 8" floppy drives.
I have 2 of them. I'm looking for documentation.
Does anyone have something?
regards,
chris
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