Olympia Advert - March 1984
From Personal Computer World
All microcomputers are made for tomorrow. But what about the day after?
Here's another also-ran in the micro stakes from yet another typewriter company - Olympia International.
The curiously-named "People" was an 8086-based machine that ran either CP/M-86, MS-DOS or GSX-86.
The latter was the 16-bit version of Digital Research's GSX desktop manager that would become the GEM Graphical Desktop, as used on the Atari ST in 1985.
Olympia, which had been part of AEG since 1962, was briefly rebranded as AEG Olympia in the early 1990s as it became more of an office products and services company, by now selling PCs under the AEG brand, rather than as Olympia.
The AEG Olympia company was broken up in 1992/93, although the Olympia brand still survives in Germany, as of 2022.
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