Conference devoted to the 90th anniversary of Alexei A. Lyapunov

Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia, October 8-11, 2001,
(state registration number 0320300064)

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M-3, the first Hungarian computer

Kovacs G.

Past Secretary General ad Vice-President of the John von Neumann Computer Society (Budapest)

The first two Hungarian computers were ready in 1958 - the MESz-1, relay computer consrtucted by Professor Laszlo Kozma - and in 1959 - the Hungarian M-3, tube computer, constructed by a group of young matematicians and engineers - using an original documentation receiving from the Soviet Union. I was the deputy leader and the technical head of the group constructing the M-3 computer. The story started in the Budapest Transit Prison, where the computer pioneers were imprisoned. After the death of Stalin the conceived criminal case proceedings were revised and the condemned intellectuals rehabilitated. Professor Laszlo Kozma returned to the University and he constructed his relay computer, Rezso Tarjan organised - first - a ?calculator department?, one year later the Cybernetical Research Group in the Academy of Sciences. Unfortunately his idea - a self constructed computer - was not realised, therefore he left the research group soon. The M-3 started the operation on 23rd January 1959, it is the date, when the compter age began in Hungary.

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