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Da Sandrigo ad Ivrea, dalla Olivetti al mondo: il genio di Gastone Garziera, protagonista della nascita della Programma 101

15-16 Oct 2026

Sandrigo (VI)

📍 Sala Consiliare del Comune di Sandrigo

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On October 15 and 16, 2026, Sandrigo celebrates Gastone Garziera, the engineer born in the Vicenza-area town who, with his work at Olivetti, contributed to the creation of the Programma 101, the first desktop calculator considered the ancestor of personal computers. The two-day event combines the conferral of honorary citizenship with a first-hand account of a season that marked the history of global computing. Thursday, October 15 at 7:00 PM, the official City Council ceremony takes place in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall. Afterwards, at 8:30 PM, the Conference Room of Palazzo Marconi hosts the public meeting during which Garziera will recount his years at Olivetti, the most important projects, and the birth of the Programma 101. On Friday the 16th, in the morning, the engineer meets the students of the lower secondary school of the Istituto Comprensivo "Giacomo Zanella".

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