Giovanni (Gianni) Becattini, born in Florence, Italy in 1951, is an electronics engineer and pioneering entrepreneur. At the age of sixteen, he started a collaboration with CQ Elettronica, the most important Italian magazine for amateur electronics. In 1973 he designed the Child 8 microcomputer and founded General Processor, the first company in Italy to produce computers for personal use. In 1998 he founded AEP Ticketing Solutions, one of the world's leading providers of electronic ticketing solutions for public transport, now a Modaxo company. The author of several publications, he is now retired and devotes himself to books aimed at preserving the immense legacy, not only technical, left to us by great companies such as Tektronix, Hewlett-Packard, Collins, Siemens and others, and their exceptional products, which he not only describes but also repairs, restores and collects with enthusiasm.
