OLIVETTI PROGRAMMA 101 - 1965
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Laboratory Museum Tecnologic@mente link :
http://www.museotecnologicamente.it/
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P101 "Super" Simulator links :
http://p101.unicas.it/p101/
(Quick to play the Angela Game)
1) click on the link http://p101.unicas.it/p101/
2) On the middle right side there's a black square with a number 2 inside, press it and change the number in 0 value.
3) Press on "Programmi" on the upper left
4) Press on "carica programmi online"
5) Angela Game
6) Now insert a number on the P101 keypad as a goal point( for example 30) and then press the "V" button of the P101. Now the Goal point is set.
7) PLAY using number from 1 to 6 as i have explained in the video.
The Olivetti was founded by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 as a typewriters mechanical industry.
In the later forties, his son Adriano Olivetti, began to be fascinated by electronic world thanks to Enrico Fermi and decided to try to enter the business .
In 1957, the Olivetti Eng. Mario Tchou's team realized the first only transitor Computer in the world ... the Elea 9003.
The sudden and premature death of Adriano Olivetti in 1960 by
cerebral hemorrhage and Mario Tchou by car accident let the Olivetti society in big trouble and also without the head and the heart of the new electronic business. New Investors decided then that the Olivetti had no to make business with Electronic and that it had to remain simply a mechanical industry. No autopsy was performed on Adriano's body so that let someone to think about a cospiracy on the Adriano and Mario's death ... but that has never been proven.
Adriano Olivetti son, Roberto Olivetti, decided in 1962 to secretely proceed with his father's dreams asking to eng. Pier Giorgio Perotto to choose some employers and begin to think if it could be possible to place a Computer on a desk. No one had to know what they were working on ... so they worked in hidden rooms.
When the project was finished, it was so great that Olivetti takes it out. But Olivetti's Managers were not all ready to understand the power of that object that didn't exist before. They decided anyway to present it at the Bema of New York in 1965 but in a minor room . The main product was still for them the mechanical calculator Logos 27 .
Instead, Americans understood very well the power of the P101 and asked for it. The Nasa used them for the Apollo Program . Olivetti was not completely ready to produce the P101 as the market began to ask. Anyway they sold 40 thousand pieces because the world was still not ready to produce Desktop Computers.
The Programma 101 got some real competition only when the HP launched its HP9100 series in 1968 . Anyway, this was a device heavily inspired by the Programma 101, and HP was ordered to pay Olivetti $900,000 in royalties for using such a similar architecture, and the famous magnetic card. The rest , it' s history !!!