Olivetti P6066 was a personal computer programmable with a version of Basic owned by Olivetti and integrated in the operating system.
Description
It was identical to
Olivetti P6060
The Olivetti P6060 was the first personal computer with a built-in floppy disk. It was presented in April 1975 by the Italian manufacturer Olivetti at the Hannover fair alongside the smaller P6040 that stored data on proprietary 2.5-inch myla ...
in the mechanical design; however, the color (white) and performances were different.
It was an improved version of the P6060, from which it was possible to make an upgrade.
Head of the development was
Pier Giorgio Perotto
Pier Giorgio Perotto (Turin, December 24, 1930 – Genoa, January 23, 2002) was an Italian electrical engineer and inventor. Working for the manufacturer Olivetti, he led a design team that built the Programma 101, one of the world's first prog ...
, and the production site was
Scarmagno
Scarmagno is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin.
Since the 1960s, it was home to a large plant of the Olivetti company, which, for some periods, produced ...
.
External links
Retro Computer museum, Zatec, Czech Republic videoArchivio Olivetti
Olivetti personal computers
Computer-related introductions in 1975
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