Advertisements of early 80's

"Olivetti M20, The Personal Computer of Telematic Age", probably for the several RS232 interfaces available, the Olivetti M20 was particularly good in small office networks. The Zilog Z8001 was a real 16bit microprocessor; M20 was a step forward the 8bit machines running CP/M. Taken from MCmicrocomputer. MCmicrocomputer was a glorious Italian magazine dedicated to personal and home computers. Hundreds of Italian hobbyist have copied BASIC listings for the Apple II, Commodore VIC20 and 64, Sinclair Spectrum.

"More questions, more answers", the Olivetti M20ST was tailored to be used in scientific and technical laboratories. Among its features, a complete implementation of a IEEE488 (HP-IB) parallel interface allowed the control of measurement instruments. Taken from MCmicrocomputer.

A variation of the Olivetti M20ST advertisement presented above.

This is a late 1984 advertisement wich shows the complete M10-M20-M24 line, which was supposed to be compatible. In reality, M20 was based on the Zilog Z8001 and the other computers used Intel processor and ran MS-DOS. There were Alternate Processor Cards that allowed the M20 to run MS-DOS and M24 to run PCOS. The disk format differencies made data sharing rather cumbersome between PCOS and MS-DOS. Taken from MCmicrocomputer.

1983 "Brains and Beauty" advertisement, from the Blue Angel site

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