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 ...

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 ...

In the preface to The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti, Meryle Secrest, a renowned biographer, explains how she became interested in the subject that resulted in her book. Secrest happened upon an unsold ...

Oranges -- "A clear head and a nimble leg" -- The convent -- Enter Adriano -- Giustizia e libertà -- Terror and resolve -- The brown affair -- A black crossing -- A ...

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, ...