Giovanni De Sandre, one of the creators of the Olivetti 101 Program, has died

Giovanni De Sandre, who was part of the team that created the Olivetti 101 Program, universally recognized as the first personal computer in the world, died at 89. Giovanni De Sandre was born in Sacile in 1935 in the province of Pordenone and then graduated in electrical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1959. In 1960 he joined Olivetti, where he was included in the team led by engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto for the 101 Program project,…