2022
In the previous episodes we discovered where and when the first transistor was created and how in few years Intel packed thousand of them in a tiny package.
Now I will tell you about a little story, the history of the first Personal Computer
Guess what? No, it wasn't Steve Jobs, was an Italian, Pier Giorgio Perotto that created Programma 101 in the first 60s.
Olivetti, in that time was leader in writing machines since many decades, and started to build mainframe in the previous years.
After the launch, Underwood (Olivetti controlled company) in USA started production, and HP tried to create a clone (HP 9100A) but this resulted in a lawsuit that ended in a 900.000$ fine that HP had to give to Olivetti.
Some Olivetti Programma 101 were used in Vietnam by US corps and were employed in Apollo 11 ground systems.
The original hardware had 240 bytes RAM.
More in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101
Thanks for the information @LucioV
@LucioV wrote:
In the previous episodes we discovered where and when the first transistor was created and how in few years Intel packed thousand of them in a tiny package.
Now I will tell you about a little story, the history of the first Personal Computer
Guess what? No, it wasn't Steve Jobs, was an Italian, Pier Giorgio Perotto that created Programma 101 in the first 60s.
Olivetti, in that time was leader in writing machines since many decades, and started to build mainframe in the previous years.
After the launch, Underwood (Olivetti controlled company) in USA started production, and HP tried to create a clone (HP 9100A) but this resulted in a lawsuit that ended in a 900.000$ fine that HP had to give to Olivetti.
Some Olivetti Programma 101 were used in Vietnam by US corps and were employed in Apollo 11 ground systems.
The original hardware had 240 bytes RAM.
More in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101
