About...

Many people have partecipated to this site. Credits were due to:

Davide Bucci	Webmaster	http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=home.inc
Dwight K. Elvey
Christian Groessler		Chris' FTP site
Andreas Senk
Carlo Merlano		Carlo's site about retrocomputing
Tix		1000bit site
Dino Molli		Dino's home page
Antonio Busi
Luigi Serrantoni		www.retrocomputing.tk
Massimiliano Sibilio
Giorgio
Matteo
Benjamin Eberhardt
Vincenzo "Pevalcas"
Roberto Bazzano		http://www.z80ne.com
Heiko Schumann		https://olivrea.de/olivetti-m20/

This site should be usable with any reasonable screen resolution and any browser.

A few words about the history of this site

This website has been first published by Davide Bucci in the summer and winter 2005. The idea was to put together an archive of the main resources dedicated to the Olivetti M20 computer, that at the time were scattered among different websites and FTP servers.

Born in an era that predates the ubiquitous presence of social network, this website has grown since then, providing manually curated contents and articles dedicated to this amazing computer.

From the technical standpoint, the core of the website is built around a very simple hand-written PHP content manager. As a result, the generated HTML code is very simple and compact. Built from the scratch using CSS, the graphical aspect of the site has been finely tuned in the years, keeping an undeniably vintage look that seemed to have been appreciated by the visitors. After all, the M20 is a vintage computer and it should not be strange that a website dedicated to it has an adequately vintage vibe.

The "page log" under each page (well, almost) is also manually curated and reflects when the page has been updated. It should not be strange to see pages that have been updated since 2005, while keeping their original intent, while others have been added and changed more deeply.

This website does not contain any cookie, except for those that may be related to the advertisement banner that we needed to add to cover up the expenses of the server.

Up to December 24, 2022, the updates were notified by RSS. However, this technology is being dropped by all the major browsers. We decided to still use a very similar xml file that is processed in a very simple way to list all the website changes. A log for each page tells when the page has been written and updated.

In November 2024, a restructuration of the HTML and CSS code leaded to a more modern organization that should allow an easier fruition on the website on mobile devices and small screens. That was about time!

Page log

November 11, 2024 - Added the paragraphs about the history of this site.
Octobre 22, 2024 - Added Heiko Schumann's website.
December 24, 2022 - Removed dead links, added some people, added this log.
June 14, 2008 - Update.
January 7, 2007 - Update, added logos on the bottom.
July 2005 - First version of this page.

Olivetti is a registered trademark of Telecom Italia. This site is not related to Olivetti nor to Telecom Italia. The material presented is meant for personal use only and is shared in a "fair use" spirit. If you own the copyright of some of the stuff presented here and you think it should be removed, please contact the webmaster.