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As soon as in the first few months of the operation of M-3 the KKCs forwarded
calculations to the Planning Office solving matrix of the important 5 years economi-
cal plans of the socialist planned economy. We had a specialist studying the operation
research tasks we also helped with lingual statistics analyses, static calculations for a
number of large building constructions. The final control of the statical calculation of
the longest bridge - the new Elisabeth Bridge - over the Danube, and many other tasks
had been carried out by this machine.
3 The First Education Programs
We organised the first programming courses in Hungary, the participants were
mathematicians, engineers, economists and other researchers. The MTA KKCs
published the first computer periodical, its title was: “Tájékoztató” (Informatory). Our
mathematicians delivered lectures on the new computer programming faculty on the
University of Sciences.
In 1960, our colleague
Dr Béla Kreko
suggested and started a new faculty in the
University of Economics called “Planing Mathemetics”. Béla Kreko wanted the Uni-
versity to train very well educated economists, knowledgeable in mathemetics and
computer science. Such faculty - I think - was one of the first not only in Hungary
and the neighbouring - i.e. socialist - countries, but in all Europe, too. I was invited to
organise and teach the computer science in this faculty. The students could study the
M-3 computer with some of the ways the programs were running on the computer. I
wrote the first university text book on computers. We - Dr Kreko and me - organised
the first university computer centre - using an URAL 2 computer - on this university,
too (1965).
When the M-3 was successfully tested and accepted by the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (1959), Mr Varga decided - naturally, we supported him - that we would
design and construct a new, modern M-3 computer, but he did not ask for a permis-
sion from the Presidium of the HAS. We thought, he could not ever get a permission
from HAS.
4 The First Computer Centre in Hungary
Mr. Varga reorganised the MTA KKCs, too, he changed the function and the name of
the institution, he organised from a research institution the first computer centre in
Hungary. This Computer Centre of HAS had several departments, I became the head
of the Computer Operations Department. We were working very soon in three shifts,
we stopped only in Christmas time. We interrupted the running programs in every 8
hours, 7 hours work and 1 hour maintenance, because the tubes running relatively
short time, we had to change several tubes in each shift.
The secret, that we constructed a new, modern M-3 computer, without the permis-
sion of the Presidium HAS, became public very soon. The new computer was about
50 % ready. The Academy instructed us to stop our „illegal” work and disassemble
the half ready machine. They declared,
the present M-3 is enough for five years long
to the institutions of the Academy.
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