Olivetti Echos 44 Color
The Olivetti Echos 44 Color is a personal computer (PC) from the Italian company Olivetti designed by Michele De Lucchi . Thanks to its special design, the computer has won several design awards, including the MAU Industrial Design Award-Selezione and Compasso D'Oro-Selezione, ADI .
It was built from 1993 and is now technically out of date. Spare parts are no longer available because Olivetti has stopped manufacturing personal computers. In Internet auction houses, however, a few specimens are offered every now and then, which mostly serve collectors and enthusiasts as spare parts stores.
There are some fans of this early laptop, which differs from its competitors at the time in a number of ways and has won so many fans: the sand-colored design is award-winning; the Echos has a rubberized palm rest, a color LC screen that was very good and large for the time, and was already very flat and compact. There was also an idle state and the battery had a running time of approx. 2.5 hours. The computer had all the necessary connections, was expandable, transportable and because of the unusual color it was also very noticeable.
Technical specifications
- Year of construction: 1994
- New price: $ 4,297 (1994), approx. 2,600 DM (1996)
- Processor : Intel i486DX2 , 40 MHz or 66 MHz
- Coprocessor : Yes
- Cache : 8 KB internal static RAM
- RAM : 4–24 MB (upgradeable)
- Graphics card : Western Digital VGA Color, 80 × 25 lines
- Graphics memory : 512K (B / W version), 1MB (color version)
- Display: liquid crystal screen , size 9.4 ", resolution 640 × 480 VGA - 256 colors, passive matrix - dual scan (DSTN), backlit
- Operating system : Microsoft Windows 3.11 for Workgroups on MS-DOS
- Hard disk : ATA-IDE, 120, 170, 240, 340, 450 MB
- Floppy disk drive : Standard 3.5 ″ floppy disk drive with 1.4 MB of memory
- Connections: VGA, parallel port, serial, PS / 2, slot for docking station
- PCMCIA : PCMCIA version 3.02 cards (of type II) or second hard disk (of type III)
- Keyboard : Olivetti with 83 keys
- Mouse : trackball
- Battery : capacity approx. 4,000 mAh
- Speakers : PC speakers
- Sound card : not available
- Dimensions: 286 × 216 × 42.8 mm (with closed notebook, color version)
- Weight: 2.270 kg (black and white), 2.490 kg (color)
Pre-install software
- MS-DOS 6.2
- MS Windows 3.1
- Own applications
- Driver (screen driver, PCMCIA, APM)
- Lotus Organizer (appointment calendar)
- Logitech mouse
- PCM plus
- Online documentation
- Introductory demo