The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti

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  • The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti Book Detail

  • Author : Meryle Secrest
  • Release Date : 2019
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 321
  • ISBN 13 : 0451493656
  • File Size : 6,6 MB

The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti by Meryle Secrest PDF Summary

Book Description: The human, business, design, engineering, cold war, and tech story of how the Olivetti company's first desktop computer, the P101, came to be. Within eighteen months it had caught up with, and surpassed, IBM, the American giant that had become an arm of the American government. Secrest tells how Olivetti made inroads into the US market in 1959 by taking control of Underwood of Hartford CT as an assembly plant for Olivetti's own typewriters and future miniaturized personal computers. Within a week of the purchase, the US government filed an antitrust suit to try to stop it. In 1960 Adriano Olivetti died suddenly of a heart attack; eighteen months later the young engineer who had assembled Olivetti's team of electronic engineers was killed in a suspicious car crash. The Olivetti company and the P101 came to an insidious and shocking end. -- adapted from jacket

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