Wow, i didn't think so many people know Olivetti...
Olivetti made typewriters but also 80286, 80386 and 80486.
Arduino (the electronic one) is born in this contest...
Then China's prices became too low to justify italians workers...
Half of Ivrea's people worked into Olivetti's and it was terrible for them...
If someone would like to come in Ivrea, I suggest him/her to arrive in Carnival period: there is a characteristic "orange battle" where people into wagons pulled by horses throw orange to people in the public square and they thow oranges to people into the wagons.
It is very suggestive and sometimes cruel.
@TBAr thank you very much for your italian reply 