The Olivetti M19 is a cheap Olivetti M24 personal computer, introduced in 1986 by the Italian company to meet a broader market segment, alongside the most powerful Olivetti M24.
In his segment this computer had a fairly successful success on the peninsula. It was equipped with Intel® licensed AMD 8088 processor, two 360KB floppy disk drives, RS-232 serial port, Centronics type parallel, green phosphor monitor, 256 to 640 KB of RAM and three ports of ISA expansion. It was equipped with a 95-key keyboard and a separate green phosphor monitor powered by the computer itself: the color monitor (without a PC power supply) was optional and needed an I / O box (a box to be fitted to the cabinet of the ' M19) containing the CGA graphics card and separate power supply for the computer.
It could be equipped with a 40 MB "hard drive" hard drive instead of one of the floppy drives by also occupying an ISA slot for the disk controller. Another 8088 8 MHz processor could also be installed to increase computing speed. In the box, in addition to computers, monitors and keyboards, there was also a pre-installation and pre-installation manual, a demonstration floppy disk, one to test the hardware, and one with a basic version of MS-DOS 2.11 and some utilities . The complete MS-DOS edition was ordered separately: Olivetti distributed its version, identical to Microsoft, except box and manual.
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