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 Olivetti, based in Ivrea, Piedmont, and invented by the Italian engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto, the P101 used many features of large computers of that period. It was launched at the 1964 New York World's Fair; volume production started in 1965. A futuristic design for its time, the Programma 101 was priced at $3,200
(equivalent to $30,900 in 2023).
About 44,000 units were sold, primarily in the US.
A Programma 101
Layout of the keyboard
Olivetti P101 magnetic card
Front view of a Programma 101 showing the printer and programming keys
Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines.
Olivetti headquarters in Ivrea, Italy
Olivetti M40 typewriter (1930), designed by Camillo Olivetti with Gino Levi Martinoli (Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan)
The Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter, designed by Marcello Nizzoli in 1950
Former Olivetti branch in Carlisle, UK