The history of school computers is the theme of a new temporary exhibition organized by the Informatics History Museum Foundation (IHMF) starting from 8 March in Túrkeve and continuing in Budapest from the second half of May The exhibition titled School Computers — The Emergence of Digital Culture in Public Education will be on display from March to 1 May in Túrkeve at the Pál Vadász Exhibition Hall of the Finta Museum and then from the second half of May in Budapest at the headquarters of the John von Neumann Computer Society on Báthori Street The temporary exhibition provides an overview of the history of Hungarian secondary school computer education when Hungarian schools began to be equipped with computers through a government programme The exhibition will feature over two hundred computers and documents from the IHMF collection and the Neumann Society’s Information Technology Exhibition in Szeged The exhibition panels will also provide information about prominent figures in informatics education a teacher at Móricz Secondary School in Kisújszállás Among the exhibits will be the HT1080Z computer from the Telecommunications Cooperative which had versions with 16 and 48 kilobytes of RAM and achieved great success in schools with the American game programme Galaxy Invasion The game became popular because the Hungarian school computer was licensed from a Far Eastern computer compatible with the American TRS-80 computer manufactured in 1977 An original example of the American TRS-80 Model 1 will also be on display at the exhibition the Budapest Radio Technology Factory’s BRG ABC-80 computer which also belongs to the classics of 8-bit Basic computers with 16 kilobytes of RAM and black and white graphics The structure appeared in Hungarian schools in a few hundred units before the HT computer was released The machine was a result of Swedish–Hungarian cooperation with engineer Marcell Jánosi designing a cassette data recorder for the Swedish computer and later creating the world’s first micro floppy Visitors will also have the opportunity to see the Videoton TV Computer (TVC) a computer with colour graphics and a built-in steering wheel which allowed for much more professional display than the HT computer Commodore and later PC computers prevailed in schools The exhibition will also feature Commodore computers distributed by Novotrade including the widely used Commodore-16 and Plus/4 models in Hungarian schools the exhibition will showcase the Primo home computer developed at HUN-REN SZTAKI in 1984 which had a significant impact on Hungarian computer education Although it was not the best choice for schools due to its touch-sensitive The Primo public computer is also one of the highlights of the exhibition The School-Computer exhibition will feature interactive replicas of rare Hungarian computers Through this online resource and QR codes placed at the exhibition visitors can access conference presentations and interesting videos from the John von Neumann Computer Society’s Information Technology Database on the topic Hungarian Conservative is a quarterly magazine on contemporary political philosophical and cultural issues from a conservative perspective Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international plastics industry News | Polymer Prices | Suppliers Guide | Jobs | Register | Advertising The Budapest Times The mercury hit 31.2 degrees Celsius in Baja breaking the previous record temperature of 28.7 C measured in Turkeve in the east in 1939 nearly 3 degrees higher than the previous record of 27 C measured in the 21st district in 1939 A new highest minimum temperature of 15.9 C was recorded in Boda nearly 2 C higher than the daily minimum temperature of 14 C measured in Gyongyos and Kisber in 1989 Budapest’s Janos Hill also witnessed a record high dawn temperature of 14.6 C breaking the previous record of 14 C measured at the Budakeszi station in 1939 on this day You must be logged in to post a comment PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE 2007 - 2025 BZT MEDIA Kft. 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You will receive mail with link to set new password The national weather service HungaroMet said on its website that Budapest and Hungary as a whole witnessed record-high temperatures in the early morning and during the day on Sunday breaking the previous record temperature of 28.7 C measured in Túrkeve in the east in 1939 According to HungaroMet nearly 2 C higher than the daily minimum temperature of 14 C measured in Gyöngyös and Kisbér in 1989 Budapest’s János Hill also witnessed a record-high dawn temperature of 14.6 C breaking the previous record of 14 C measured at the Budakeszi station in 1939 As we wrote earlier, some outdoor pools are already open in Hungary, but the cold returns next week; details HERE and website in this browser for the next time I comment Y"},"category":false,"taxonomy":{"active":false,"name":"category"}},"markup":{"custom_html":true,"wpp-start":"","wpp-end":"<\/ul>","title-start":"","title-end":"<\/h2>","post-html":"{thumb} {title} {stats}<\/span>{excerpt}<\/p><\/li>"},"theme":{"name":""}} You have successfully joined our subscriber list © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved