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After reading @mwichary’s fantastic deep dive into the Gorton font, I had to look up the font used on the typewriter I used to learn to touch type: the #Olivetti Lettera 32. I could have sworn that typewriter used the Gorton font but NOPE. I don’t actually know what font this is. That Q with the curly tail is super distinctive!
@prahou @maddiefuzz can I play too?
(restrictions applies as the Spanish keyboard layout doesn't have the # nor the @ symbols 
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«company CEO Margherita Della Valle said the sale would “enable #Vodafone to focus its resources in markets with sustainable structures and sufficient local scale.”»
Un modo elegante per dire che in Italia non reggono la altrui concorrenza o che gli italiani sono dei pezzenti che pretendono di avere servizi di rete a prezzi concorrenziali! 
E dire che Vodafone proviene dalla #Omnitel e dalla #olivetti 
Ricordate quando la #Olivetti alla fine degli anni '50 e senza nessun finanziamento pubblico riuscì a commercializzare uno dei primi computer a transistor al mondo, l’Elea 9003? Nello stesso periodo la IBM, fu sovvenzionata dal governo statunitense.
Ora come allora Intel riceverà dal governo statunitense altri 7.9 miliardi di dollari pubblici:
E in Europa? Uno degli autori del #ChipsAct europeo sostiene che si possano finanziare solo prodotti “pre-competitivi”.
I just stumbled across this video exploring the #LostPlace of the former #olivetti PC factory near Ivrea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7XEa7tC7xU #retrocomputing
I'm looking for advice on the best way to install Python on a new MacBook Pro 
On my Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 24.04 the time to install Python and start programming is literally 0 seconds, since it is pre-installed 
I would like to avoid bloatware (eg: Xcode or similar), Docker (at least for now) or GUI, unless absolutely necessary to create a virtualenv in the terminal and start programming with Django (if it's possible) 
Less is more 
Well, I finally got around to figuring out what size barrel connector this Olivetti M15 takes for the DC input (itʻs 6.3mmx3mm), and gave it some power after looking closely at all of the capacitors, etc… and... the lights came on. it made a sound and then... SMOKE. So time to take this guy apart again.
This Olivetti M15 Laptop Computer on ShopGoodwill looks to be in a bit of rough shape, but might go for a good price to someone that wants to do some work. It's currently priced at $14.99 and the auction ends tomorrow.
shopgoodwill.comUsed Vintage Olivetti M15 Laptop Computer
Have you ever used a manual typewriter? What about an electric one, like this beautiful Olivetti ET121? 
with PDA (and 
For anyone curious, the code is here, including a neat screenshot 
#emacs #olivetti
https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti
GitHubGitHub - rnkn/olivetti: Emacs minor mode to automatically balance window marginsEmacs minor mode to automatically balance window margins - rnkn/olivetti
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Pero entonces vi mi vieja máquina de escribir Olivetti Lettera 42, que llevaba no sé cuántos años sin ser usada.
La abrí, me puse a teclear en ella, y la tinta de la cinta increíblemente no se había secado. ¡Funcionaba!
Escribí una carta de presentación con la Olivetti, envié la revista y me olvidé del tema, hasta que meses después me enteré gracias a la llamada de la librería Pasajes.
Y esta es la historia de la última vez que utilicé mi #Olivetti (que ahí sigue, por si una urgencia).
#Olivetti #Perottina: Quando il Primo PC Doveva Essere Italiano!
https://www.melamorsicata.it/2024/01/04/olivetti-perottina-programma-101/
Melamorsicata · Olivetti Perottina: Il Primo PC Italiano Che Ha Sfidato Gli StandardScopri la storia rivoluzionaria della Perottina, il PC italiano di design che ha conquistato il mondo tech.
quando mi capita di ascoltare una puntata di #culturepodcast #olivetti, chiunque sia la personalita' invitata, rimango sempre colpito dalle domande, dalla cultura, dalla proprieta' di linguaggio, dal modo di parlare del pubblico
https://www.spreaker.com/user/archiviostoricoolivetti/musica-pop-andrea-zorzi-23gennaio1979
sironi.tksironi.tk
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#12 - Olivetti Identities. Spaces and Languages 1933–1983
A must have to go deeper in one of the most innovative company of the last century.
Made by the Swiss school ECAL and the Università degli Studi di Ferrara, this book "analyzed the corporate identity journey of Olivetti from the establishment of the Olivetti advertising office in 1933 to the opening of the permanent Olivetti pavilion at the Hanover Fair in 1983".
https://ecal-shop.ch/en/product/olivetti-identities-spaces-and-languages-1933-1983/
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Thanks to @bzotto, who scanned this Caractères ad from the Official Exhibit Guide, National Computer Conference 1979, we can see Cubic on a Xerox daisy wheel alongside some IBM Selectric typing elements: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stewf/53341528758/
FlickrCaractères typewriter type ad, 1979
Wandering Through Old Word Processors Yields a Beast - The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tool... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/18/wandering-through-old-word-processors-yields-a-beast/ #retrocomputing #wordprocessor #typewriter #olivetti #vintage #ms-dos #nec #x86
Hackaday · Wandering Through Old Word Processors Yields A BeastThe world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change. Today, word processors and digital documents are so ubi…
I have a user's manual for the Klingons' key energy production facility.
