It&#x27;s astonishing to find Olivetti&#x27;s products in the 60s. They had the aesthetic appeal Apple put into their lines decades later, and seemed like good engineering underneath the style too.<p>Also, they advertised the same value, making the work easier, leaner, but with fancy desks geometry, cute drawers and typewriters.<p>Progress never change.<p>ps: I read in a book that Olivetti&#x27;s effort to get into the digital computers market died because of a bad bet from their latest owner (De Benedetti failed attempt at taking over <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_G%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_de_Belgique" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_G%C3%A9n%C3%...</a> in 1980).