The mysterious affair at Olivetti : IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War conspiracy to shut down production of the world's first desktop computer
Secrest, Meryle2019
Book
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
Main title:
Author:
Secrest, Meryle, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.©2019
Collation:
304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
"This Is A Borzoi Book" -- taken from copyright page.Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-290) and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780451493651 (hbk)9780451493651 (hardback)0451493656 (hardback)
Dewey class:
338.76213916094509048338.7
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
641529
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | -Business and IT | BUSIN 338.7 SECR | Available |