[CalChris]

I worked in Ivrea as well as Milano. So many cool things I saw first at Olivetti. I need to go back to Ivrea and visit the factory. I worked there for like a month before I was allowed to go to lunch by myself for fear of getting lost in the labrynth. I want to stay at Hotel Serra, shaped like a typewriter. Walk via Palestra. Maybe take the train into Torino.

[rbanffy]

Wasn’t it Olivetti that had smart badges that’d use IR to report to in-room receivers so you’d know where someone was and calls could be routed to the nearest phone? I remember they had a trivial do not disturb more - just place the badge face down and the receivers wouldn’t be able to find you.

[CalChris]

I don’t remember that. But the phone number to get the Olivetti operator from my apartment out on Gugliemo Jarvis was a single digit like 6. It was after all a company town which BTW emptied out on weekends. People tended to go home.