About eight years before the Xerox built the Alto at PARC and over a decade before the Apple ][ premiered, Italian business equipment manufacturer Olivetti produced a bona fide desktop personal ...

About eight years before the Xerox built the Alto at PARC and over a decade before the Apple ][ premiered, Italian business equipment manufacturer Olivetti produced a bona fide desktop personal ...

Thank you for Keith Houston’s review of “The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti” by Meryle Secrest (Five Best, Aug. 19), which includes well-deserved praise for my first computer, the Olivetti-Underwood ...

Pier Giorgio Perotto, engineer and businessman: born Turin, Italy 24 December 1930; engineer and manager, Olivetti and Elea 1957-93; founder and president, Finsa Consulting 1993-2002; married (two ...

Sharon Weinberger is the author of The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World. The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War ...

Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines. Headquartered in Ivrea, in the Metropolitan ...

The world's first desktop computer didn't take shape in a Menlo Park garage or the bowels of a corporate production facility. It was created in a workshop in Northwest Italy owned and operated by the ...

The ICA in London is set to host an exhibition looking at graphic and spatial design from Italian manufacturing company Olivetti. Olivetti was formed in 1908 by Camillo Olivetti as a typewriter ...