Olivetti went terribly wrong in the 90s, but it was no typewriter company in the 80s! It started as a calculator company and even NASA used its stored program c

Olivetti went terribly wrong in the 90s, but it was no typewriter company in the 80s! It started as a calculator company and even NASA used its stored program calculators, effectively one of the first desktop computers (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101). In the 80s they bought the rights to the Thomson MO6 and the BBC Micro in an attempt to use their brand to enter the home computer market in Italy, but they were already selling both PC compatible computers and custom designs such as the M10 (an improved Tandy 100).