The machine must be quality and graceful -Camillo Olivetti said

It is also an extension of this to discuss the design of the computer.

　Olivetti is a famous Italian type company.In fact, it was a company that made computers from large computers to PCs from the 1960s to the 1990s.The founder Camillo Olivetti said in 1911 that the company's first typewriter was completed, "The machine must be elegant and must be elegant."

　The time when industrial design was rarely told.It is a famous word that cannot be avoided in textbooks in product design.The first company in the computer industry is IBM, but the trigger was that Watson Jr. was shocked by the Olivetti showroom in the fifth street, where Watson Jr. dropped in due to traffic congestion.

　Olivetti had a design consultant with architect Marcello Nibzori in the late 1930s.Watson Jr., in 1956, welcomed Elliott noise, a design character at the Museum of Modern New York, and completed a cooprite design known in the word "good design is good business".。

　The PROGRAMMA101, released in 1965, is also displayed in the Mountain View Computer History Museum as an Olivetti computer.The earliest commercial desktop program calculator was the ancestor of a personal computer, but it was designed by Mario Bellini, a global architect and designer.By the way, the DOS machine "Quaderno", which I used and used, is also from Mario Bellini.

Olivetti's Programma101 exhibited at the computer history museum.

　I created an Olivetti M10, a portable computer released by Olivetti in 1983 in a block de gadget that makes historical digital devices in blocks.

　A product by Kyocera's OEM, a brother of the "NEC PC-8201" released in Japan in Japan, and a brother of the "TRS-80 Model 100" released by Tandy in the United States.It is a machine that is synonymous with computers in the era, which was also called "briefcase" type before the clam shell type notebook PC became common.

Olivetti M10

　The main body specification is 80C85 (2) to the CPU.4MHz), ROM is 32kbytes, RAM is 16KBytes (all can be added), screen resolution is 240x64 dots (can display 40 digits x8 lines in the alphabet).The footprint that is perfect about A4 size (although it is just a little bit), the body weight is 1.8 kg.The software was used in N82-BASIC, text, scheduler, terminal software, and address books (a little different from PC-8201).This could work with four AA batteries.

　In particular, TRS-80 Model 100 was useful by journalists and people who work around the world.I also remembered that my friend brought a PC-8201 and was doing hardware debugging, so of course it was also an engineer.The M10 also seems to have sold well in the first year of its release and accounted for 22 % of European portable computers.

　However, if this machine stands out, a linear form, a business machine for business is still rare green body color, and a transparent plastic design that covers the liquid crystal part.In addition, not only such fashionableness, but also the design of the liquid crystal part tilt and making it easier to see, and even though it is smooth on both sides, the switch can be used by turning the finger under the body.。

Where the cover on the back of the body is opened.

There are no connectors and switches on both sides of the main unit, and there is a liquid crystal concentration adjustment dial on the right.

Transparent plastic wrapped in the characteristic LCD part.

Isn't the manufacturer making such a machine right now (though the thickness and weight should be one -third)?

　Speaking of computers in the early 1980s, those who know what designs were the mainstream of that era would know well.The PC-8201 is a practical design that makes you feel the momentum of Japan at the time, and I don't hate the fluttering of TRS-80 Model 100.But they don't seem to be comparable.This is because the way of thinking about products and design is completely different.

　Olivetti M10 is Perry A.It was designed by King and Antonio Macchi Cassia.Perry A.King is one of the historic products in product design, "Olivetti Valentine" (red bucket), and is a person credit with Ettre Sot Sus (although Valentine will be made in this series).Antonio Macchi Cassia is also a designer known for its company's typewriter and famous round lamps.

M10 is being tested by connecting to a paper tape hole.

　By the way, I got this machine that I had longed for about 25 years ago, but for a while I could only turn on the power and play with it a little.However, about two years ago, when I got into a paper tape punch, the M10, which was a super beautiful product, was active in the test of the paper tape study machine (because it has RS-232C).

　Olivetti M10, a computer that I think is the most beautiful, is about to notice that I'm getting tired of Clamshell -type notebook PCs.Without opening or closing the liquid crystal, you want to use the keyboard lightly on SNS and a little contact.Of course, the body can now be much lighter and lighter.Look at the following videos made in blocks with such a mood.

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Mr. Endo

　President of Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute Co., Ltd. He joined ASCII Co., Ltd. in 1985 after working as a programmer. He has been an incumbent in 2013 after working as a monthly editor -in -chief of ASCII and Director ASCII Co., Ltd. Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute is conducting and consulting about the lifestyle of people in smartphones and the Internet era. He is also a free software author, such as "AMSCLS" (fully used in Lha) and "thumb" (thumb shift keyboard emulator). His hobbies are curry, illusion and stationery. In 2018 and 2019, he won a prize for the second consecutive year at the "illusion and illusion contest" of the Japanese Society of Basic Psychological Society. He is making an animation floating pen using the illusion. His books include "Calculator Shop Koukaku Fighting" (ASCII) and "10 World NHK IT White Box" (co -authored by Kodansha).