2024. May 17. Friday
Hungarian Museum for Science, Technology and Transport - Budapest
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Address: 1101, Budapest Kőbányai út 24-28.
Phone number: (1) 273-3840
E-mail: info@mmkm.hu
Opening hours: Temporarily closed.
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The exhibition has closed for visitors.
2011.06.24. 00:00
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The first IBM PC was launched thirty years ago, in 1981. It was made in the cooperation of IBM, Intel and Microsoft. Ever since then, PC does not only mean Personal Computer but also all successors of IBM PC.
Ten years before the first PC was marketed, the first microprocessor was made. It was the Intel 4004. It designated the beginning of a new generation. Compared with the first microprocessor by Intel from 1971, the 4004, IntelR CoreTM from 2011 are four-thousand times faster with four-thousand using times less energy applied. These processors have various inbuilt technologies that provide a more spectacle and better PC for the users, with a lot bigger output.
From the beginning of the 1980s, SZKI, then Műszertechnika, and Videoton and several other companies tried to develop their own PCs. During the last few decades, more and more accessories to PCs were purchased from Asia. PCs and its clones first conquered offices. The, by the mid 90s, they took over from various home computers.
This 'great box' on our desk changed our lives. This is why we chose PCs for the main controller: we honour the microprocessor.
Les Vadasz, was the head of the MOS design department where the first microprocessor was developed. He sent the following personal message to visitors of the exhibition 'DOStalgia - PCs are 30 Years Old':
'The first microprocessor was made up of 2300 transistors. By now, this number is million times more ... we are over two-billion. This technology has changed our lives entirely in the past decades, it changed our work, it gave us computer games, too. We did a long journey and the revolution keeps going on...' The exhibition material consists of a number of rare relics: e.g. an Intel 4004 processor, and a IBM Model 5150 - the first real PC in the world, also the predecessor of the IBM PC: the IBM Displaywriter, and also the first Hungarian-made PC - a IBM clone called the ’Proper’. We also show several products by Intel, in addition to an early e-book, and some other items that Charles Simonyi gave to his physicist father Károly Simonyi.
The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Transportation in cooperation with the private collector Károly Nagy, supported by Intel Hungary Inc. and the Natural Cultural Base.
Ten years before the first PC was marketed, the first microprocessor was made. It was the Intel 4004. It designated the beginning of a new generation. Compared with the first microprocessor by Intel from 1971, the 4004, IntelR CoreTM from 2011 are four-thousand times faster with four-thousand using times less energy applied. These processors have various inbuilt technologies that provide a more spectacle and better PC for the users, with a lot bigger output.
From the beginning of the 1980s, SZKI, then Műszertechnika, and Videoton and several other companies tried to develop their own PCs. During the last few decades, more and more accessories to PCs were purchased from Asia. PCs and its clones first conquered offices. The, by the mid 90s, they took over from various home computers.
This 'great box' on our desk changed our lives. This is why we chose PCs for the main controller: we honour the microprocessor.
Les Vadasz, was the head of the MOS design department where the first microprocessor was developed. He sent the following personal message to visitors of the exhibition 'DOStalgia - PCs are 30 Years Old':
'The first microprocessor was made up of 2300 transistors. By now, this number is million times more ... we are over two-billion. This technology has changed our lives entirely in the past decades, it changed our work, it gave us computer games, too. We did a long journey and the revolution keeps going on...' The exhibition material consists of a number of rare relics: e.g. an Intel 4004 processor, and a IBM Model 5150 - the first real PC in the world, also the predecessor of the IBM PC: the IBM Displaywriter, and also the first Hungarian-made PC - a IBM clone called the ’Proper’. We also show several products by Intel, in addition to an early e-book, and some other items that Charles Simonyi gave to his physicist father Károly Simonyi.
The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Transportation in cooperation with the private collector Károly Nagy, supported by Intel Hungary Inc. and the Natural Cultural Base.
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