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Olivetti
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Ing. C. Olivetti & Co., SpA. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.
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The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti, who is also famous for developing a new management system. It opened its first overseas manufacturing plant in 1930. Olivetti's Divisumma electric calculator was launched in 1948. Olivetti produced Italy's first electronic computer, the transistorised Elea 9003, in 1959. They also purchased the US typewriter company Underwood that year. In 1964 the company sold its electronics division to the USA company General Electric, although it continued to develop new computing products. The TCV-250 video display terminal, designed by Mario Bellini in 1966, is in the Museum of Modern Art's design collection. Olivetti's first personal computer, the M20 with Zilog Z8000 CPU, was released in 1982. In 1985 it acquired a controlling share in the British computer manufacturer Acorn Computers Ltd; a third partner was Thomson SA, and indeed Olivetti was selling the Thomson MO6 and Acorn BBC Master Compact with brand names "Olivetti Prodest" PC128 and PC128s respectively. The company continued to develop personal computers until it sold its PC business in 1997.
Olivetti also manufactured for AT&T as an OEM the Model 6300 [1] PC (actually a re-badged Olivetti M24).
The Luxembourg-based company Bell S.A. acquired a controlling stake in Olivetti in 1999, but sold it to a consortium including the Pirelli and Benetton groups two years later. In 2003 Olivetti was absorbed into the Telecom Italia group, maintaining a separate identity as Olivetti Tecnost.
Olivetti today operates in two countries (Italy and Switzerland) and sales associates in 83 countries.
Research and development are located in:
- Agliè (Province of Turin), Italy
- Arnad (Valle d'Aosta), Italy
- Carsoli (Province of L'Aquila), Italy
- Scarmagno (Province of Turin), Italy
- Yverdon, Switzerland
Total employees in 2003 was 1,755.
Since 1969, clothes fashion writer Anna Piaggi has been using a bright red Olivetti typewriter in her work. Author Cormac Mccarthy Patrick Leigh Farmer
- Any Way - Multifunctional print scanner
- My Way - Portable printers
- Fax Lab 95
- Fax Lab 100
- Fax Lab 101 and 101S
- Fax Lab 120
- Fax Lab 121, 220, 450, 470, 270
- OFX 180, 9000, 9100, 9200
- IN series cartiages
- ON series paper
- L817 calculators
- T1210 Solar calculators
- J1210 Solar calculators
- Summa 120, 20,
- Logos 662, 664T, 694T
- PR2 passbook printers
- PR2E passbook printers
- PR4 SR and SL DR
- PRJ 200, 12
- Slip Printers
- PRT100
- PR40 passbook printers
- PR30 passbook printers
- d-Copia Copiers
- d-Copia colour, B/W printer/scanner (A3 and A4 series)
- d-Color P160
- d-Color P24
- PG L22 colour printer
- Fax Lab 100
- Linea 198 typerwriters
- CRF 4050 cash registers
- ECR 5100, 5300, 5700, 5900
- Gallery, Logic
- Nettuna 200, 400
- ORS 6600 Planet
- Explor@ 100, 200, 300 200M 300M - POS
- Explor@ 120D, 150D and Gold
- D-Files
- Document Management
- TP Label - franking system
- PR6 and PR2 Counter Printing Peripherals
- M2T, M3m M5C, TE1000, TE1000R, AX/T - ticket validation
- HD3, NT, XP, COMBO - validator
- Echo, H2 onboard terminals
- Software - management of appliances, integrated systems, ticketing, etc...
In 1994, Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory (Cambridge, England) developed the VNC. VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. Originally running on an ATM-connected thin client device, it was ported to other platforms, including Win32, Unix, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS. It is a remote display system which allows a thin client to remotely access a desktop GUI environment on another computer over the network.
Since it is platform independent, you can remotely run an Apple desktop from a Windows client, or a Unix desktop from an Apple client, and so on. The thin client (called the VNC viewer) is small enough to fit on a floppy or run from a Java-enabled web browser. Other cool features include the ability to share a desktop session with more than one client, and the "stateless" nature of the VNC viewer.