Ing. C. Olivetti & Co., SpA., known as Olivetti,'s an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines. History The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti. Olivetti opened its first overseas manufacturing plant in 1930, and its Divisumma electric calculator was launched in 1948. Olivetti produced Italy's first electronic computer, the transistorised Ele… (More on Olivetti)