Hi, I started working as an IT administrator for Olivetti in Ivrea in 1988 and I worked for it for 14 years. Who, like me, has worked for it, cannot forget the humanity of the people and the special environment that allowed us to grow professionally ... it wasn't just any job, it was THE job. Thank you for your wonderful site - I will give you a great advertisement!

The year is 1985 and my father had just bought me an Olivetti M24 with double floppy drives and a color monitor. I was already the proud owner of the Amstrad CPC 464 a 8 bit computer and was programming various different small applications with the buildin Basic languages on that one, storing them all on to the build-in tape drive. It had become clear to my father that I had the talent for making computer programs and he decided that it was time to introduce a “real” computer. He had the idea that I could make some programs on the PC that would help him run his business. I started on GW-Basic and within a short time I had made a program that could calculate the salaries for his employees. Soon there after I made a bookkeeping program. It soon became clear that GW-Basic just didn’t do the job so I moved over to Turbo Pascal. I was 17 turning 18 and had no one teaching me anything about computers or programming. It was all try and guess back then way before the internet arrived so your only "friend" at that time was the libary with a tiny selection of old books.

Thank you very much for this site about the Olivetti hardware & software systems. This is one of the best on the web and it is usefull to knows more about models, manuals and other informations. Thanks also for your avalaibility.

Hola ! , primero , muy buena la pagina , creo que es una de las que mas tiene informacion de la Olivetti , queria consultar si es posible compartir los diskettes de la Olivetti M19 ya que son muy dificiles de conseguir y no hay copia en internet , tengo una m19 funcionando perfecto. https://i.imgur.com/ynNFfrKg.png Hello ! , first, the page is very good, I think it is one of the most informative of the Olivetti, I wanted to ask if it is possible to share the Olivetti M19 diskettes since they are very difficult to obtain and there is no copy on the internet, I have a m19 working perfect. https://i.imgur.com/ynNFfrKg.png

Greetings from Argentina! I just discovered your website and I want to congrate you for the collection. I'm also an Olivetti vintage calculators collector and I love the italian industrial design, best regards,

Bellissimo sito, una risorsa per chi ama Olivetti.

Hallo Herr Schumann, das ist ja erfreulich, dass es noch Sammler der Olivetti Geräte gibt. Sie sind ja oftmals etwas besonderes, da auch viele Geräte zahlreiche Designpreise gewonnen haben. Tolle Seite !!!

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