The company Ing. C. Olivetti & Co., SpA. 1908 were created by Camillo Olivetti in Ivrea (Italy).

The enterprise was developed Adriano Olivetti mainly by its son, that in addition a new management system continued to develop. it opened its first assembly factory in overseas to 1930. Two years later Olivetti was transferred into a corporation (SpA). 1948 brought Olivetti out its electrical computer Divisumma. First electronic computers produced in Italy 1959 were introduced by Olivetti under the designation Elea 9003 with transistors. In the same year Olivetti transferred the US-American typewriter manufacturer Underwood. In the future Olivetti for typewriters, calculating machines, accounting machines and other office machines became admits.

1964 sold its division electronics to Olivetti to the US enterprise General Electric, although it continued developing new computer products. The video playing console TCV-250, which was arranged by Mario Bellini 1966, is located today in the Design collection museum of the OF decaying kind. Olivetti devices applied in the 1960er and 1970er years as world-wide prominently in the industrial design, then worked also Ettore simmer-sat and Marco Zanuso for the company. Of Olivetti of first personal computers, the M20 with the CCU Zilog Z8000 1982 were brought out. 1985 took over Olivetti an influential portion of the British computer manufacturer Acorn computer Ltd., in which also Thomson SA was involved. Olivetti sold thereupon the model Thomson MO6 and the model Acorn BBC master Compact under the label name Olivetti Prodest PC128 and PC128s. The enterprise developed personal computers until 1997 further, until it sold its PC business.

When of Olivetti communicated general manager Carlo de Benedetti, mentioned "IL Ingengniere", 1988 after the acquisition of 18% of the share capital of the Gnrale de Belgique its intention of wanting to supplement the participation up to the acquisition of a check minority he did not have to experience, whom unversucht the Belgian establishment anything left, Olivetti from to prevent since the largest Belgian clearing bank had owing to their industrial getting things widely distributed participation in the Belgian industry and was considered as national institution.

Olivetti had created 1995 together with the German man man AG a portable radio enterprise operated named Omnitel, in which man man with 31,4% and Olivetti with 23,4% were involved last. When Olivetti applied 1999 for a portion to the Telecom Italia, the two companies agreed on a sales of the Olivetti portions of the largest Italian portable radio offerer Omnitel of man man, which is thereby today in the possession of Vodafone. Man man and Olivetti created and operated likewise a common fixed net telecommunications enterprise under the company Infostrada, in whom both were involved to 50% up to of Olivetti entrance with Telecom Italia each. After the assumption of man man by Vodafone this Infostrada continued to sell to the Italian ENEL.

1999 acquired those Bell S.A. from Luxembourg a majority portion of Olivetti, but sold it two years later to a consortium, in which Pirelli with 60% and Edizioni getting thing, a daughter of the Italian clothing company Benetton, with 40% were involved. The original office machine manufacturer was subdivided into numerous operational enterprises, whose most important sections lay in the ranges of telecommunications and information technology. After Olivetti 2001 in Telecom Italia had taken part, Olivetti was fused 2003 with Telecom Italia, kept however under the name Olivetti Tecnost still another its own identity.

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