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First post, by Nic-93

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Anyone heard of that varient of the olivetti brand? thats my story ive been told by a diffrent pc collector, not sure what kind of server deal, maybe a site host or something.
but here is some inside look of it, its a socket 7 type board with isa and pci.

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    Full view of the motherboard itself and memory.
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    Side view of the swing out for part replacement and power supply aswell, and you can see the ram type.
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    The card you mount the pci and isa onto
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    Veiw of the socket 7 precessor.
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Reply 1 of 3, by chinny22

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While not common there are a few Olivetti's floating round here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti#Computers

Think this is the 1st SMP I've seen though, is it now yours? What it running/used for? While very cool, its not very useful for retro gaming.

Reply 2 of 3, by Nic-93

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I havent been told its exact story but ive heard it was a windows 95 machine in its past, but sadly its hard drive didnt survive, ive treid to mount a new one into it, but the hard drive lamp stays on, did i mount it wrong?

Reply 3 of 3, by chinny22

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Finding much info on this system is hard. Any chance the motherboard has a part number? that big long one looks more like the serial number.
Any chance of more pics of the hard drive and where it plugs in? Maybe It's SCSI?

Can you get to a dos prompt with a floppy boot disk? (This will prove its hanging at BIOS or not)

Win95 would have been a waste as the 2nd CPU would have been ignored, but we can resolve that with a better OS once its up and running 😉