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Trip down memory lane: Olivetti M10
Rj: I'm afraid that's its my ways that have changed more than the taxman since 1984! Back then I would sit in the middle of the room, with all my records and paperwork spread around me on the floor, and my M10 in my lap, writing little basic programs to tally and figure as I went. Well, one nice thing is that there's quiet a few things out there now that can run my basic programs. The downside is that I'm now using Turbotax instead. Oh well, time marches on.
Rj >>
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leon: It's very well possible in the meantime someone has written an emulator for the M10: you would be able tot complete your 2005 taxform on your contemporary pc, in the 1984 software you used back then. Or did the American (or British?) taxman change its ways too much :-)
Grtx, Leon >>
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Rj: I just found one of these in my closet - wow, I used to use this all the time, then mainly to help me do taxes, and then not at all. I think I'll put it up on ebay.
Rj
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Jan Vanden Bossche: If you are looking for even more resources for the Olivetti M-10, check out the several Tandy TRS-10 model 100 sites. A lot of the (BASIC)programs for the 100 also work on the M-10. The memorychips are identical. >>
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leon: By cripes!
Been searching on the web for a manual and found them allright. The best one is an 178 page pdf, but it downloaded very slow and when it finally arrived it was corrupted one way or another, an caused the pdf reader to crash.
When I called it a day and put the M10 to rest in its still glossy leather coat, guess what? Inside was a pristine original manual!
Tonight on the couch the Olivetti will be on my lap :-) >>
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Hans Postelmans: Before you do that.
First turn off that terrible refresh script on the homepage when the webcam is down.
Or...set the refresh time on 24 hours. :-)
Thanks anyway
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October 16, 2004
Trip down memory lane: Olivetti M10
Got a beautiful present today; one of the Olivetti M10's, I used to work on on the road, from 1982 through the end of 1985, when my first Tandy 200 arrived. I'ts possible this is the very machine I took with me when I went to Australia in november 1985. The Australian Open was still at Glenferrie Road, Kooyong, and we were working there in a tent. Leo, our technical editor, is cleaning up a lot of old rubbish and he gave this one to me.
Guess what: I put four A4 batteries in it, and it's still working! Now, where is the manual? I remember I used to write funny things in basic, between long and sometimes boring tennis-matches. Of course not when, in his second match, Michiel Schapers beat the youngest Wimbledon winner ever, Boris Becker, who had a bye in the first round. Very convenient for me, as I was the only Dutch journalist present Down Under. and I had to write a lot of extra articles for Dutch newspapers and magazines, an do the television interviews with Schapers in front of an Aussie crew.
I also used the Olivetti as an alarm clock for years. A few lines in basic, power down, and when the time was there it woke itself up and started playing the Star Spangled Banner.
Would it be possible to hook this thing to one of my contemporary machines? There are four connectors at the back: rs-232C, printer, tape and BCR. First thing to do: fire up the web, and look for a manual. I'll be back on this.
Posted by Leon at October 16, 2004 01:17 AM
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Posted by: young college gettysburg at September 15, 2008 08:26 PM
I'm afraid that's its my ways that have changed more than the taxman since 1984! Back then I would sit in the middle of the room, with all my records and paperwork spread around me on the floor, and my M10 in my lap, writing little basic programs to tally and figure as I went. Well, one nice thing is that there's quiet a few things out there now that can run my basic programs. The downside is that I'm now using Turbotax instead. Oh well, time marches on.
Rj
Posted by: Rj at April 12, 2005 03:30 PM
It's very well possible in the meantime someone has written an emulator for the M10: you would be able tot complete your 2005 taxform on your contemporary pc, in the 1984 software you used back then. Or did the American (or British?) taxman change its ways too much :-)
Grtx, Leon
Posted by: leon at April 12, 2005 06:35 AM
I just found one of these in my closet - wow, I used to use this all the time, then mainly to help me do taxes, and then not at all. I think I'll put it up on ebay.
Rj
Posted by: Rj at April 12, 2005 01:21 AM
If you are looking for even more resources for the Olivetti M-10, check out the several Tandy TRS-10 model 100 sites. A lot of the (BASIC)programs for the 100 also work on the M-10. The memorychips are identical.
Posted by: Jan Vanden Bossche at December 15, 2004 08:23 AM
By cripes!
Been searching on the web for a manual and found them allright. The best one is an 178 page pdf, but it downloaded very slow and when it finally arrived it was corrupted one way or another, an caused the pdf reader to crash.
When I called it a day and put the M10 to rest in its still glossy leather coat, guess what? Inside was a pristine original manual!
Tonight on the couch the Olivetti will be on my lap :-)
Posted by: leon at October 16, 2004 06:46 PM
Before you do that.
First turn off that terrible refresh script on the homepage when the webcam is down.
Or...set the refresh time on 24 hours. :-)
Thanks anyway
Posted by: Hans Postelmans at October 16, 2004 01:41 AM