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Ing. C. Olivetti & Co., SpA. is an Italian manufacturer of Computer s, Printer s and other business machines. HISTORY 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. Olivetti was famous for the attention it gave to design: " preoccupation with design developed into a comprehensive corporate philosophy, which embraced everything from the shape of a space bar to the color scheme for an advertising poster".''International Directory of Company Histories'' ''s.v.'' Olivetti, available at [http://www.answers.com/topic/olivetti-s-p-a answers.com . In 1952, the New York , 1979. From the 1940s to the 60s, Olivetti Industrial Design was led by Marcello Nizzoli , responsible for the ''Lexicon 80'' (1948) and the iconic portable ''Lettera 22'' (1950). Later, Mario Bellini and Ettore Sottsass directed design. Bellini designed the ''Programma 101'' (1965), '' Divisumma 18 '' (1973) and ''Logos 68'' (1973) calculators and the ''TCV-250'' video display terminal (1966), among others. Sottsass designed the ''Tekne 3'' typewriter (1958), ''Elea 9003'' computer (1959), the ''Praxis 48'' typewriter (1964), the very famous '' Valentine '' portable typewriter (1969), and others. Michele De Lucchi designed the ''Art Jet 10'' ink-jet printer (1999) (winner of the Compasso D'Oro ) and the ''Gioconda'' calculator (2001).See picture gallery at {Link without Title} 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 {Link without Title} 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. OPERATIONS Olivetti today operates in two countries ( Italy and Switzerland ) and sales associates in 83 countries. Research and development are located in:
Total employees in 2003 was 1,755. FAMOUS OLIVETTI USERS
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RESEARCH 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 features include the ability to share a desktop session with more than one client, and the "stateless" nature of the VNC viewer. ASSOCIATED COMPANIES NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS
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