Spotted in the contact list of an iPhone 3G ad in iTaly is Camillo Olivetti, the founder of the nation’s most famous exporter of electronics. Namesake Camillo Miller writes in…
In the Fifties, Olivetti built a computer that was even more powerful than the computers IBM was developing. In 1964 they even developed what is commonly seen as the real first Personal Computer at that time. Olivetti than faced a long decline in the 60s and in the 70s … They went close to setting the standard for the position of the letters in the international keyboard, but IBM won the keyboard war.
iPhone 3G tour in Italian [The Apple Lounge]
Olivetti ade the not-at-all-lamented AT&T PCs.