Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "The Dawn and Dusk of Sun Microsystems" video.

  1. Somewhat away from Asia... but Olivetti is super interesting
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  2.  @santopino2546  As far as I can tell ( my italian is terrible) it was a technical achievement that suffered from poor management and marketing "Olivetti sold about 44,000 Programma 101 units, mostly in the United States, including 10 machines that NASA used for the Apollo 11 program. “By Apollo 11 we had a desktop computer, sort of, kind of, called an Olivetti Programma 101. It was kind of a super calculator. (…) It would add, subtract, multiply, and divide, but it would remember a sequence of these things, and it would record that sequence on a magnetic card (…). So you could write a sequence, a programming sequence, and load it in there” David W. Whittle, Johnson Space Center, NASA"
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  3.  @santopino2546  exactly .. interesting
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