Programma 101 Pier Giorgio Perotto
front view of programma 101 @ national museum of computing in bletchley park
the innovative computer, known perottina, named after inventor, first computer in history purposely designed on desktop. made possible use computer @ home, office , places not reached huge mainframes of time. programma 101 officially launched @ 1964 new york world s fair, attracting major interest public , press. volume production started in 1965, selling 44,000 units in market. nasa bought ten models , used plan apollo 11 landing on moon.
by apollo 11 had desktop computer, sort of, kind of, called olivetti programma 101. kind of supercalculator. foot , half square, , maybe 8 inches tall. add, subtract, multiply, , divide, remember sequence of these things, , record sequence on magnetic card, magnetic strip foot long , 2 inches wide. write sequence, programming sequence, , load in there, , if — lunar module high-gain antenna not smart, didn t know earth was. [...] have run 4 separate programs on programma 101 [...]
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