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Olivetti M21

Olivetti · 1984

The portable version of Olivetti's M24, and a demonstration that European industrial design was a generation ahead of the American boxes. The M24 family ran a full 16-bit 8086 on a 16-bit bus while IBM was still selling the 8088, so it was genuinely faster than the machine it copied. The M21 folds that into a luggable with a nine-inch amber screen and a detachable keyboard. AT&T sold the same machines in America under its own name.

As catalogued

Maker
Olivetti
CPU
Intel 8086-8
Memory
128K, 256K, 640K
Regions
PAL (Europe)
Chassis
portable with a 9-inch amber screen and a detachable keyboard
OS
MS-DOS 2.11

Chips

1
CPU
Intel 8086

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RH-0259Olivetti Personal Computer M21 Computer · 1984
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