A lower-priced competitor to the Palm Pilot, this device was clearly closely modeled on the more famous, ground-breaking Pilot. Interestingly, note the use of a logo that’s strikingly similar to the trademarked Apple Newton logo.
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Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines. Headquartered in Ivrea, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, the company has been part of the Telecom Italia Group since 2003. (Wikipedia)
Palm Blocks daVinci PDA Sales (The Register, August 13, 1999)
A short article about Palm Computing being granted an injunction preventing Olivetti’s US subsidiary from selling its Royal daVinci PDA due to alleged software copyright infringement.
