---
title: Mecipt
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Romania
years:
- '1961'
params:
  name: Mecipt
  image: /media/museum/photos/mecipt_system_s1.jpg
  company: /companies/mecipt
  company_name: MECIPT
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: Mecipt
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: Mecipt
  - label: TYPE
    value: Professional Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: Romania
  - label: YEAR
    value: '1961'
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: Machine language
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: binary switches
  - label: CPU
    value: Unknown
  - label: SPEED
    value: 50 instructions per second
  - label: RAM
    value: Unknown
  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
    value: A few tons
  - label: BUILT IN MEDIA
    value: Tape puncher
  tabs:
  - photos
  - links
  forum_thread: 1156
  photos:
  - title: SYSTEM
    subtitle: ''
    text: Thanks to **Stefan Deli**
    image: /media/museum/photos/mecipt_system_s2_h.jpg
  - title: PAPER TAPE CHECK
    subtitle: ''
    text: Thanks to **Stefan Deli**
    image: /media/museum/photos/mecipt_tapecheck.jpg
  - title: 3 KB DRUM MEMORY
    subtitle: ''
    text: |-
      Yes, 3 KB...

      Thanks to **Stefan Deli**
    image: /media/museum/photos/mecipt_drum_s1.jpg
  - title: 'MECIPT 2 #1'
    subtitle: ''
    text: Thanks to **Stefan Deli**
    image: /media/museum/photos/mecipt2_system_s1.jpg
  - title: 'MECIPT 2 # 2'
    subtitle: ''
    text: Thanks to **Stefan Deli**
    image: /media/museum/photos/mecipt2_system_s2.jpg
  - title: MECIPT 3
    subtitle: ''
    text: |-
      Last version of the Mecipt series.

      Thanks to **Stefan Deli**
    image: /media/museum/photos/mecipt3_system_s1.jpg
  links:
  - title: More technical information about the Mecipt
    url: http://www.outsourceromania.com/MECIPT.htm
    text: ''
  oc_id: 1188
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205005738/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1188
    date: '2022-12-05'
---

The beginning of IT in Romania.

Professor V. Baltac said in the Conference "*Computers and Computer Networks in Romania between 1953-2001*", from The Romanian Academy, at 22 nov. 2001 that the years 1950 had marqued a Romanian priority in Romanian computing techniques.\
Three computing techniques schools were then created:\
\- Bucharest - **IFA** (Institutul de Fizica Atomica - The Athomical Physics Institute),\
\- Timisoara - **MECIPT** (Masina Electronica de Calculat a Institutului Politehnic Timisoara - Electronical Computing Machine of the Polytechnical Institute of Timisoara),\
\- Cluj - **DACICC** (Dispozitiv Automat de Calcul al Institutului de Calcul din Cluj - Automated Computing Dispositive of the Computing Institute of Cluj).

MECIPT was a typical first generation computer.\
It contained:\
\- Over 2000 electronic tubes,\
\- Tens of thousands passive components,\
\- Words of 30 bits,\
\- As external memory - drum equivalent of 3 kb,\
\- Data was input into computer by punched paper tape,\
\- As a printer was an electrical typing machine.\
Its speed was about 50 operations/second and it was programmed in machine code.

MECIPT was one of the first romanian computers... It worked for the first time... I guess around 1961-1962.

Thanks to **Stefan Deli** for all this information.

<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>