The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: Ibm, the Cia, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer

by Meryle Secrest

Book Overview

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.

The human, business, design, engineering, cold war, and tech story of how the Olivetti company came to be, how it survived two world wars and brought a ravaged Italy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451493656
• ISBN13: 9780451493651
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"