>>14670498 past bread & notables
>CodeMonkeyZ: Did you know thatOlivetti actually built the hardware for the first electronic "voting" machines?Now you do. Bizta did the software, Smartmatic sub-contracted out the hardware to Olivetti, who in turn actually made the damn things.
Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines. Headquartered in Ivrea, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, the company has been part of the Telecom Italia since 2003.[4] One of the first commercial programmable desktop calculators, the Programma 101, was produced by Olivetti in 1964 and was a commercial success.