Donne ungheresi che lavorano nel Centro informatico Uvaterv di Budapest, in Ungheria, nel 1977, pianificando linee ferroviarie. Il computer mostrato sull’immagine ha il nome ESZ 0120-B ed è un computer r-20 bulgaro (crediti: Fortepan.Hu)
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Great photo for 1977 !
Really appreciate this Series of IT History.
Programmer was a female job – At least in the days when it was still highly mathematical. And until the 80s hyped the nerd. A pity, really.
The R-20 was a Soviet ES-1020 (a loose clone of IBM System/360 model 30) made in Bulgaria.
The machine was quite fresh for the Eastern Bloc at the moment – ES-1020 was introduced in 1972 (while the original model 30 was first shipped in 1965 and withdrawn in 1977).
We are only seeing secondary storage units and the console typewriter in this picture.
Babe let’s code 😉☺️
Early computer era is fascinating.Nobody would thought that it would come to stuff we have today.
Lighting has some backrooms vibe
They look cool in the white robes. Their code should be a very clear.
I remember playing as kid in this rooms when at work with my mother. My “job” was to remove the tractor lines from the printer paper.
I do wonder what the need for computers in the rail network were needed for, considering a place like Hungary generally had slow and inefficient trains in the communist period and I presume still even now.
I mean by all means laugh at the UK rail network today but we had the first train to go over 100mph (160kph) over 100 years ago in the age of steam- no computers.