Olivetti M40 typewriter (1930), designed by with (, Milan). The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer by in 1908 in,. The firm was mainly developed by his son.
Olivetti opened its first overseas manufacturing plant in 1930, and its electric calculator was launched in 1948. Olivetti produced Italy's first computer, the, in 1959, and purchased the that year. In 1964 the company sold its electronics division to the American company.
It continued to develop new computing products on its own; one of these was, the first commercially produced personal computer. In the 1970s and 1980s they were the biggest manufacturer for office machines in and 2nd biggest PC vendor behind in Europe. In 1980, Olivetti began distributing in Indonesia through Dragon Computer & Communication. In 1981, Olivetti installed the in Strasburg and Luxembourg. In September 1994, the company launched Olivetti Telemedia chaired by Elserino Piol.
From 2003 is part of the TIM Group. — Jonathan Martin, International Directory of Company Histories In 1952, the held an exhibit titled 'Olivetti: Design in Industry'; today, many Olivetti products are still part of the museum's permanent collection. Another major show, mounted by the in Paris in 1969, toured five other cities. Olivetti was also renowned for the caliber of the architects it engaged to design its factories and offices, including, and many others. From the 1940s to the 1960s, Olivetti was led by, responsible for the Lexicon 80 (1948) and the portable (1950). Later, and directed design. Bellini designed the (1965), (1973) and Logos 68 (1973) calculators and the TCV-250 (1966), among others.
Sottsass designed the Tekne 3 typewriter (1958), (1959), the Praxis 48 typewriter (1964), the Valentine portable typewriter (1969), and others. Michele De Lucchi designed the Art Jet 10 (1999) (winner of the ) and the Gioconda calculator (2001). During the 1970s Olivetti manufactured and sold two ranges of minicomputers.
The 'A' series started with the typewriter-sized A4 through to the large A8, and the desk-sized DE500 and DE700 series. Worked for Olivetti from 1970 until 1990, and designed their first computer, Olivetti L1, in 1978 (following ergonomic research lasting two years). In 1991, Sowden won the prestigious Award for the design of the Olivetti OFX420. Olivetti paid attention to more than the importance of product design; graphic and architectural design were also considered pivotal to the company.
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Was hired by Adriano Olivetti in 1936 to work in the publicity department. Pintori was the creator of the Olivetti logo and many promotional posters used to advertise the company and its products. During his activity as Art Director from 1950, Olivetti's graphic design obtained several international awards, and he designed works that created the Olivetti image and became emblematic Italian reference in the history of 20th-century design. Those designers also created the Olivetti Synthesis office furniture series which mainly were used to be installed in Olivetti's own headquarters, worldwide branch offices and show rooms.
Olivetti also produced some industrial production machinery, including metal working machines of the Horizon series. Typewriters Olivetti began with mechanical typewriters when the company was founded in 1909, and produced them until the mid 1990s. Until the mid 1960s they were fully mechanical, and models such as the portable were designed by Ettore Sottsass. With the Tekne/Editor series and Praxis 48, some of the first electromechanical typewriters were introduced. The Editor series was used for speed typing championship competition. The Editor 5 from 1969 was the top model of that series, with proportional spacing and the ability to support justified text borders. In 1972 the electromechanical typeball machines of the Lexicon 90 to 94C series were introduced, as competitors to the, the top model 94c supported proportional spacing and justified text borders like the Editor 5, as well as lift-off correction.
In 1978 Olivetti was one of the first manufacturers to introduce electronic daisywheel printer-based word processing machines called TES 401 and TES 501. Later the ET series typewriters without (or with) and different levels of text editing capabilities were popular in offices. Models in that line were ET 121, ET 201, ET 221, ET 225, ET 231, ET 351, ET 109, ET 110, ET 111, ET 112, ET 115, ET 116, ET 2000, ET 2100, ET 2200, ET 2250, ET 2300, Et 2400 and ET 2500. For home users in 1982 the Praxis 35, Praxis 40 and 45D were some of the first portable electronic typewriters. Later, Olivetti added the Praxis 20, ET Compact 50, ET Compact 60, ET Compact 70, ET Compact 65/66, the ET Personal series and Linea 101. The top models were 8 lines LCD based portables like Top 100 and Studio 801, with the possibility to save the text to.
The professional line was upgraded with the ETV series video typewriters based on operating system, ETV 240, ETV 250, ETV 300, ETV 350 and later operating system based ETV 260, ETV 500, ETV 2700, ETV 2900, ETV 4000s word processing systems having floppy drives. Some of them (ETV 300, 350, 500, 2900) were external boxes which could be connected through optional serial interface to many of the ET series office typewriters, the others were fully integrated with an external monitor which could be installed on a holder over the desk. Most of the ET/ETV/Praxis series electronic typewriters were designed by Marion Bellini. By 1994, Olivetti stopped production of typewriters, as most users had transitioned to. Computers. Olivetti's is considered the first commercial desktop computer. Exhibition at, Milan.
Between 1955 and 1964 Olivetti developed some of the first transistorized systems, such as the. Although 40 large commercial 9003 and over 100 smaller 6001 scientific machines were completed and leased to customers to 1964, low sales, loss of two key managers (arguably killed by US intelligence services) and financial instability caused Olivetti to withdraw from the field in 1964. In 1965 Olivetti released the, considered the first commercial desktop personal computer. It was saved from the sale of the computer division to GE thanks to an employee, Gastone Garziera, who spent successive nights changing the internal categorization of the product from 'computer' to 'calculator', so leaving the small team in Olivetti and creating some awkward situations in the office, since that space was now owned by GE. In 1974 Olivetti released the TC800, an intelligent terminal designed to be attached to a mainframe and used in the finance sector.
It was followed in 1977 by the TC1800. Olivetti's first modern personal computer, the, featuring a, was released in 1982. In 1983 Olivetti introduced the, a clone of the using and the processor (at 8 ) instead of the used by (at 4.77 MHz). The M24 was sold in North America as the 6300. Olivetti also manufactured the AT&T 6300 Plus, which could run both DOS. The M24 in the US also was sold as 6060. The M28 was Olivetti’s first PC to have the processor.
In 1983 Olivetti produced its M10 laptop computer, a -based workalike of the successful, which it marketed in Europe. These were the first laptops to sell in million-unit quantities, though the itself only attained sales figures in the tens of thousands and went out of production within two years. In 1985 the company acquired a controlling share in the British computer manufacturer; a third partner was.
Olivetti sold the and Acorn Compact with brand names Olivetti Prodest PC128 and PC128s respectively. At the same time Olivetti also tried to compete with with the MS-DOS based Prodest PC1, but without success. In 1987 Olivetti introduced the LSX line of computers which was based on the processor. They could run either MOS or Olivetti's,. In 1989 Olivetti introduced the based next generation of LSX workstations with the LSX 5020 with, it was shown in 1989 as 'Computing Platform CP486'. In 1990, Olivetti had its own distribution network in through Essentially Software Ltd. (owned by Gary McNabb) located at Mt.
Eden in and, where an Olivetti M300-100 16 MHz PCs with 80386SX were sold for NZ$7395 and used as graphical work station for design houses using as graphical program. The New Zealand distribution stopped in 1991 when Olivetti could not supply their PCs. Olivetti also sold quasi-portable 8086/8088-based PCs with an integrated and one or two integrated 3.5' drives, running DOS 3.27, an Olivetti version of 3.20 with minor improvements like the M21 portable (based on M24) and the M15. Also later Olivetti produced interesting laptops like M111, M211, S20, D33, Philos and Echos series. A very interesting subnotebook was the Olivetti Quaderno, about the same size as an A5 paper – it was the grandfather of the introduced 20 years later. End of computer production Olivetti did attempt to recover its position by introducing the in 1995, a full, to be used in the; this project was a failure. Managed to successfully introduce a similar product in the U.S.
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But only some years later. The main problem of the company was its inability to conjugate innovation with the quality standards it had committed itself to, at a time when the margins on the PC market were diminishing as not only the market but also the number of PC clone producers grew. The company continued to develop personal computers until it sold its PC business in 1997. Peripherals. PR40, PR2, PR2-e, PR2+, PR2-10 Scanner Printer which was used in banking sectors. PG-series and PGL-series - black and white digital printers.
d-Color p-series color digital printers. A3 and A4 series MFP End of Olivetti as a separate company In the 1990s, Olivetti's computer businesses were in great difficulty, reportedly because of the competition from US vendors and new cheap manufacturers for PC components in like, and so on from which local system builders profited much to offer cheaper PCs than Olivetti did with their own designs. It was on the brink of collapse and had needed government support to stay afloat. A company in transition, it had moved out of the typewriter business into personal computers before embracing telecoms between 1997 and 1999. In the process it had lost around three-quarters of its staff.
In 1999, The -based company Bell S.A. Acquired a controlling stake in Olivetti, but sold it to a consortium including the and groups two years later. Olivetti then launched a hostile bid for Telecom Italia in February 1999, despite being less than a seventh of the size of its target. In a take-over battle against, and other potential bidders, Olivetti won out and controlled 52.12% of former monopoly Telecom Italia, Italy's #1 fixed-line and mobile phone operator. However, the ownership structure of the merged Olivetti / Telecom Italia was complex and multi-layered with Olivetti took on around $16 billion of extra debt. It was then referred to as the 'Olivetti/Telecom Italia affair' because of the unpleasant secret affairs behind.
After a 2003 reorganization Olivetti became the office equipment and systems services subsidiary of Telecom Italia. In 2003 Olivetti was absorbed into the group, maintaining a separate identity as Olivetti Tecnost. Rebirth and resumption of computer production In 2005, Telecom Italia re-launched the company in the information technology sector, investing €200 million; at first restoring the original Olivetti brand, then replacing it with Olivetti Tecnost in 2003. In 2007, Olivetti launched the 'LINEAOFFICE', designed by for Olivetti; a new line of PCs, notebooks, printers, and calculators. Olivetti today operates in Italy and, and has sales associates in 83 countries.
Research and development are located in, and in Italy, and, Switzerland. In March 2011 Olivetti began producing the OliPad, its first, featuring a ten-inch screen, 3G, WiFi, connectivity, 2, 2.2.2 and a 1024 x 600 display. It also features an application store, with specifically designed by Olivetti for 'business & government'. In 2014 the R&D department in was sold to. Smartphones In 2013, Olivetti launched a series of smartphones called Oliphone:.
Olivetti Oliphone M8140. Olivetti Oliphone Q8145. Olivetti Oliphone Q8150. Olivetti Oliphone Q9047. Olivetti Oliphone WG451.
Olivetti Oliphone WG501 See also. Olivetti S.p.A.
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