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Syntrex
Syntrex Inc. was a public American computer systems company active from 1979 to 1992. The company had its heyday in the 1980s, when it was one of the largest manufacturers of word processing and data processing systems. Olivetti S.p.A., a major office equipment manufacturer based in Italy, was an early and important investor in Syntrex. Following a steady decline in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the company liquidated its assets after going bankrupt in 1992. Corporate history Syntrex was incorporated in October 1979 by Daniel Sinnott, James Bruno, and Little Silver in Eatontown, New Jersey, as an outgrowth of S&B Associates, another company founded by the trio based in Sayreville and founded earlier in 1979. Sinnott was the principal founder of Syntrex; previously, he founded Interdata, a small but influential manufacturer of minicomputers acquired by Perkin-Elmer in 1975. Olivetti S.p.A., an Italian manufacturer of typewriters and other office equipment, was an early investor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivetti ETS 2010
Olivetti is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers, calculators, and fax machines. It was founded as a typewriter manufacturer by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 in the Turin commune of Ivrea, Italy. By 1994, Olivetti stopped production of typewriters, as more and more users were transitioning to personal computers. Mechanical models M1 (1911) Until the mid-1960s, the Olivetti typewriters were fully mechanical. Introduced at the World's Fair in Turin in 1911, the first Olivetti typewriter, the M1, was made of about 3000 hand made parts and weighed 17 kg. It was the first Italian typewriter and had a keyboard of 42 keys corresponding to 84 signs, 33-cm paper roll allowing for 110 characters and featured two-colored ribbon, automatic reverse direction, and return key. Heavy and massive, it was intended for professional use in offices. M20 (1920) In 1920 the M1 was replaced by a new model, the M20. It featured several innovations, including the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
