Rediscovering the Remarkable Engineers Behind Olivetti’s ELEA 9003

[sohkamyung]

An IEEE Spectrum article on Rocchi and Matteo Demonte, who are working to document the history of computing in Italy (and in general). They have produced a comic and video in Italian on Mario Tchou, the engineer in charge of the effort behind the Olivetti ELEA 9003.

[EdS]

Interesting! For more on the ELEA 9003 see also your earlier post:

The Italian Computer: Olivetti's ELEA 9003 Was a Study in Elegant, Ergonomic Design

A look at Olivetti’s ELEA 9003 mainframe. Mainframe history might have been different if Olivetti had not suffered some bad lack during its introduction. But Olivetti’s legacy lives on via the company STMicroelectronics and via Federico Faggin, who would join the team that would produce the Intel 4004 microprocessor.