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Olivetti typewriters, the Glossary

Olivetti is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers, calculators, and fax machines.^[1]

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Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) (chemical formula (C8H8)x·(C4H6)y·(C3H3N)z) is a common thermoplastic polymer.

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Adriano Olivetti

Adriano Olivetti (11 April 1901 – 27 February 1960) was an Italian engineer, entrepreneur, politician, and industrialist.

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Alphanumericals

Alphanumericals or alphanumeric characters are any collection of number characters and letters in a certain language.

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Backspace is the keyboard key that in typewriters originally pushed the carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems typically moves the display cursor one position backwards,The meaning of "backwards" depends on the direction of the text, and could get complicated in text involving several bidirectional categories.

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Calculator

An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics.

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Camillo Olivetti

Samuel David Camillo Olivetti (August 13, 1868 – December 1943) was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.

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Caps Lock

Caps Lock is a button on a computer keyboard that causes all letters of bicameral scripts to be generated in capital letters.

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Carriage return

A carriage return, sometimes known as a cartridge return and often shortened to CR, or return, is a control character or mechanism used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text. Olivetti typewriters and carriage return are typewriters.

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Compasso d'Oro

The Compasso d'Oro is an industrial design award originated in Italy in 1954. Olivetti typewriters and Compasso d'Oro are Italian design.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum at the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan, New York City, along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile.

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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres.

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CP/M

CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system and its purpose is to organize files on a magnetic storage medium, and to load and run programs stored on a disk.

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Daisy wheel printing

Daisy wheel printing is an impact printing technology invented in 1970 by Andrew Gabor at Diablo Data Systems.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

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Design Museum

The Design Museum in Kensington, London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass (Innsbruck, Austria 14 September 1917 – Milan, Italy 31 December 2007) was a 20th-century Italian architect, noted for also designing furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home and office wares, as well as numerous buildings and interiors — often defined by bold colours. Olivetti typewriters and Ettore Sottsass are typewriters.

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Fax

Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.

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Floppy disk

A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born 7 April 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Gino Pollini

Gino Pollini (19 January 1903 in Rovereto – 25 January 1991 in Milan) was an Italian architect.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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Hearst Magazines

Hearst Magazines is a division of Hearst Communications that oversees its magazine publishing business in the United States and abroad.

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IBM Selectric

The IBM Selectric (a portmanteau of "selective" and "electric") was a highly successful line of electric typewriters introduced by IBM on 31 July 1961. Olivetti typewriters and IBM Selectric are typewriters.

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Illinois Institute of Technology

Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Ivrea

Ivrea (Ivrèja;; Eporedia) is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy.

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Keyboard layout

A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard.

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Liquid-crystal display

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers.

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Marcello Nizzoli

Marcello Nizzoli (1887 – 1969) was an Italian artist, architect, industrial and graphic designer.

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Mario Bellini

Mario Bellini (born 1 February 1935) is an Italian architect and designer.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Mimeograph

A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator or stencil machine) was a low-cost duplicating machine that worked by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Natale Capellaro

Natale Capellaro (22 December 1902 – 26 February 1977) was an Italian mechanical designer of mechanical calculators and honoris causa engineer, best remembered for the successful Olivetti mechanical calculators he designed, such as models Divisumma 14, Divisumma 24 and Tetractys.

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NEC V20

The NEC V20 is a microprocessor that was designed and produced by NEC.

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Olivetti

Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines. Olivetti typewriters and Olivetti are industrial design and Italian design.

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Olivetti computers

The Olivetti company, an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines, was founded as a typewriter manufacturer by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 in the Turin commune of Ivrea, Italy.

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Olivetti Lettera 22

The Olivetti Lettera 22 is a portable mechanical typewriter designed by Marcello Nizzoli in 1949 or, according to the company's current owner Telecom Italia, 1950. Olivetti typewriters and Olivetti Lettera 22 are Italian design and typewriters.

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Olivetti M19

The Olivetti M19 was a personal computer made in 1986 by the Italian company Olivetti.

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Olivetti typewriters

Olivetti is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers, calculators, and fax machines. Olivetti typewriters and Olivetti typewriters are industrial design, Italian design and typewriters.

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Olympia-Werke

Olympia-Werke AG was an important German manufacturer of typewriters. Olivetti typewriters and Olympia-Werke are typewriters.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Printer (computing)

In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a durable representation of graphics or text, usually on paper.

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QWERTY

QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets.

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Read-only memory

Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.

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Shift key

The Shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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Sotheby's

Sotheby's is a British-founded multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City.

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Space bar

The space bar is on the bottom center of the keyboard The space bar, spacebar, blank, or space key, is a key on a typewriter or alphanumeric keyboard in the form of a horizontal bar in the lowermost row, significantly wider than all other keys.

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Tablet computer

A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title.

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TIM Group

TIM S.p.A. (formerly Telecom Italia S.p.A.) is an Italian telecommunications company with headquarters in Rome, Milan, and Naples (with the Telecom Italia Tower), which provides fixed telephony and DSL data services.

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Turin

Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.

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Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Olivetti typewriters and typewriter are typewriters.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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Xanti Schawinsky

Alexander Schawinsky, known as Xanti Schawinsky (March 25, 1904 – September 11, 1979) was a Swiss painter, photographer and theatre designer.

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Zilog Z80

The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog that played an important role in the evolution of early computing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_typewriters

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