The Olivetti P6060 was the first

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with a built-in

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. It was presented in April 1975 by the Italian manufacturer

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at the

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fair alongside the smaller P6040 that stored data on proprietary 2.5-inch mylar

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called Minidisk (3 KB).

Description

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The engineering team that devised the P6060 wanted to enclose into the machine everything the user would need, by integrating not only the

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but also the floppy drive. Thus it became the first Personal Computer to have this unit built into its interior. Its central processing unit was on two cards, code named PUCE1 and PUCE2, with

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components. It had an 80-column graphical thermal printer, 48 Kbytes of

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, and

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language. It was in competition with a similar product by IBM that had an external floppy disk drive. The assembly line was located in the Olivetti factories of

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, some modules forming subsets of the machine as a printer or floppy disks were manufactured at plants in San Bernardo d'Ivrea.

External links

Description of the P6060
in website ''Old Computers Museum''

(Italian)

(Italian) {{Olivetti computers Olivetti personal computers Computer-related introductions in 1975