The exhibition provides an overview of the history of IT education in Hungarian secondary schools, focusing on the period of the first half of the 1980s, when computers began to be supplied to Hungarian schools as part of a government programme. Computers, cassette tapes, software and museum-quality documents from the ITMA Collection in Szeged and the historic Newman Tarsasziged Informatics Gallery can be seen in the exhibition from the heyday of school computer technology.
Galaxy invasion of schools
In the paintings, we can also read about great IT teachers and role models, including piano teacher Mihaly Kovacs and Sandor Vinci, a teacher at Mureč High School in Kišišalas, who started teaching cybernetics, a precursor to modern IT, in the late 1950s. the last century.
In addition to other items on display at the exhibition, the Híradástechnika Szövetkezet HT1080Z computer with 16 and 48 KB RAM versions with black and white graphics and a built-in cassette recorder appeared in large numbers in schools. The American game show GALAXY INVASION had the greatest success on computers that were mainly intended for basic language teaching.
A copy of the original American TRS-80 Model 1 can also be viewed, as well as Budapest Rádiótechnikai Gyár's BRG ABC-80 computer, which also features 16KB of RAM and black and white graphics and is also one of the Basic 8-bit PC classics. The machine was the result of a Swedish-Hungarian collaboration. The cassette data store for the Swedish computer was designed by the brilliant Hungarian engineer Janussi Marcel, the same inventor who created the world's first small floppy disk.
The Videoton Television Computer (TVC), the legendary Seksvheervar supercomputer with color graphics and a built-in joystick, already enabled a much more professional display than the HT Computer, but when it was released, in the mid-1980s, Commodore and subsequent computers also won in the school machine category.
Primo's “People's Computer” is also one of the jewels of the exhibition. In the school-computer exhibit featuring interactive replicas of artefacts (Homelab–2, airlines–16 and Mickey–With working copies of 80 rare Hungarian computers) and an online knowledge base, with the help of the latter and QR codes placed in the exhibition, conference presentations, topic descriptions, biographies and interesting videos from the Newman Society's information history database on the subject can be accessed .
gabor kepes, The exhibition manager, Newman Company, said:
I hope that the exhibition will provide an opportunity for digital culture teachers to showcase the development of the personal computer to their students and get them excited about Newman Society competitions.
More information is available on the websites njszt.hu, agovomultja.hu and fintamuzeum.hu.
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