About “the Humane Machine”

– 2.42 The (old) frontiers of electronics – 3.50 Adriano, Roberto and the Electronics Division – 6.58 The “rescue-team” – 10.25 The political scenario – 13.50 Who needs a personal computer? – 14.53 Piergiorgio Perotto, his role and efforts – 17.25 Magnetic cards, machine language and toilet talk – 20.10 The Read more…

The Humane Machine

The machine that wasn’t meant to be created, and yet it was: the merit goes to a small team of engineers, who disobeyed their bosses’ orders, messed with international politics and crafted something unthinkable for the time. This episode of Italian Culture unveils what’s behind the first personal computer ever Read more…