Thank you for Keith Houston’s review of “The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti” by Meryle Secrest (Five Best, Aug. 19), which includes well-deserved praise for my first computer, the Olivetti-Underwood ...

The world's first desktop computer didn't take shape in a Menlo Park garage or the bowels of a corporate production facility. It was created in a workshop in Northwest Italy owned and operated by the ...

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Biographer Meryle Secrest chases a theory that two key Olivetti computer visonaries' deaths did not happen as officially recorded. While a... In the preface to The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti, ...