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BL
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878207
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Secrest, Meryle
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| Title & Author
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The mysterious affair at Olivetti : : IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War conspiracy to shut down production of the world's first desktop computer /\ Meryle Secrest.
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| Edition Statement
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First edition.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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304 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0451493656
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: 9780451493651
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| Notes
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"This Is A Borzoi Book" -- taken from copyright page.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-290) and index.
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| Contents
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Oranges -- "A clear head and a nimble leg" -- The convent -- Enter Adriano -- Giustizia e libertà -- Terror and resolve -- The brown affair -- A black crossing -- A wilderness of mirrors -- Enigma variations -- The experience of a lifetime -- High stakes -- The curious case of the second death -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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| Abstract
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The human, business, design, engineering, cold war, and tech story of how the Olivetti company's first desktop computer, the P101, came to be. Within eighteen months it had caught up with, and surpassed, IBM, the American giant that had become an arm of the American government. Secrest tells how Olivetti made inroads into the US market in 1959 by taking control of Underwood of Hartford CT as an assembly plant for Olivetti's own typewriters and future miniaturized personal computers. Within a week of the purchase, the US government filed an antitrust suit to try to stop it. In 1960 Adriano Olivetti died suddenly of a heart attack; eighteen months later the young engineer who had assembled Olivetti's team of electronic engineers was killed in a suspicious car crash. The Olivetti company and the P101 came to an insidious and shocking end. -- adapted from jacket
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The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150.
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Ing. C. Olivetti C.-- History.
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Ing. C. Olivetti C.
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Computer industry-- Italy-- History-- 20th century.
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Computer science-- Italy-- History-- 20th century.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich Famous.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science Technology.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers information Technology.
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Computer industry.
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Computer science.
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Italy.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.7/6213916094509048
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| LC Classification
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HD9696.2.I82S43 2019
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