Programma 101
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The Olivetti Programma 101, also known as Perottina or P101, is one of the first "all in one" commercial desktop programmable calculators, although not the first. Produced by Italian manufacturer Oliv
A Programma 101
Pier Giorgio Perotto, Giovanni De Sandre, Gastone Garziera, and Giancarlo Toppi, the Programma 101 team (except Giuliano Gaiti) at the Olivetti Laboratory (c. 1962–1964)
Layout of the keyboard
Olivetti P101 magnetic card
Federico Faggin
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Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 project and t
Programma 101
…but in reality by Mario Bellini, was ergonomical and innovative for the time. Some of the design was based on a 1961 Olivetti computer co-developed by Federico Faggin that served as a model for the programmable calculator. The computational hardware consisted of standard (for its time) discrete devices (transistors…
Faggin in September 2011
Faggin at the Computer History Museum's 2009 Fellows Award event