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Mecipt	Computers	Professional Computer	Romania	1961	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos links oc_id source Mecipt /media/museum/photos/mecipt_system_s1.jpg /companies/mecipt MECIPT label value NAME Mecipt label value MANUFACTURER Mecipt label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Romania label value YEAR 1961 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Machine language label value KEYBOARD binary switches label value CPU Unknown label value SPEED 50 instructions per second label value RAM Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT A few tons label value BUILT IN MEDIA Tape puncher photos links 1156 title subtitle text image SYSTEM Thanks to **Stefan Deli** /media/museum/photos/mecipt_system_s2_h.jpg title subtitle text image PAPER TAPE CHECK Thanks to **Stefan Deli** /media/museum/photos/mecipt_tapecheck.jpg title subtitle text image 3 KB DRUM MEMORY Yes, 3 KB... Thanks to **Stefan Deli** /media/museum/photos/mecipt_drum_s1.jpg title subtitle text image MECIPT 2 #1 Thanks to **Stefan Deli** /media/museum/photos/mecipt2_system_s1.jpg title subtitle text image MECIPT 2 # 2 Thanks to **Stefan Deli** /media/museum/photos/mecipt2_system_s2.jpg title subtitle text image MECIPT 3 Last version of the Mecipt series. Thanks to **Stefan Deli** /media/museum/photos/mecipt3_system_s1.jpg title url text More technical information about the Mecipt http://www.outsourceromania.com/MECIPT.htm 1188 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20221205005738/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1188 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.

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