My friend Gianfranco D’amato gave me the beautiful mechanics of an Olivetti Divisumma from the 1950s. The bodywork has been removed to reveal the extraordinariness of this machine, this tangle of bits of iron, which adds and subtracts, divides, multiplies and writes the result on a roll of paper. All mechanically, because it is impressive to discover th…
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