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pre-computer

Valentin Arfire

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connexions - backview
a very kind gentleman allowed me to get a sense of proportion near the machine frame - the connections are very interesting and rusted
a precursor of computers - back when something like that occurred in Romania.

mecipt_mercator_back.JPG



http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECIPT

MECIPT
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MECIPT stands for "Machine for Electronics Computing Timisoara Polytechnic Institute, a research center at the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara, which set up in 1961, MECIPT-1, the first electronic computer built in a university in Romania and CIFA- the second in country after the Institute of Atomic Physics Bucharest-Magurele.

Its design started in 1956 by a team led by Joseph Kaufmann, William and Basil Loewenfeld Baltac (and I. Munteanu, Herbert Hartmann, Dan Farcas, M. Fildan) and was completed in 1961.

http://www.360cities.net/image/f-art-museum-timisoara-march-26-2011#301.00,0.80,70.0
 
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