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CID-201
CID 201 was a digital computer produced in Cuba in 1970. History Cuba had already produced the analog computer SILNA 999. In 1969, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro asked during a visit to the University of Havana if Cuba could produce a digital computer. The (CID, "Center for Digital Researches") was formed. The project was directed by Luis Carrasco (Cuban), Luis Carrasco and mostly designed by Orlando Ramos. The first version was designed using transistors, but after the introduction of integrated circuits, the design was changed. It was inspired by the American 1965 PDP-8. The components were mostly Japanese, due to the American embargo on Cuba. On 18 April 1970, the first computer was produced. It was named CID 201 following the earlier digital watch CID 101. It could do 25 000 additions/second. Its memory held 4 096 12-bit word (computer architecture), words. It was considered a third-generation computer. It could be programmed in LEAL (computer language), LEAL (, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Computer Hardware In Eastern Bloc Countries
The history of computing hardware in the Eastern Bloc is somewhat different from that of the Western world. As a result of the CoCom embargo, computers could not be imported on a large scale from Western Bloc. Eastern Bloc manufacturers created copies of Western designs based on intelligence gathering and reverse engineering. This redevelopment led to some incompatibilities with International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and IEEE standards, such as spacing integrated circuit pins at of a 25 mm length (colloquially a "metric inch") instead of a standard inch of 25.4 mm. This made Soviet chips unsellable on the world market outside the Comecon, and made test machinery more expensive. History By the end of the 1950s most COMECON countries had developed experimental computer designs, yet none of them had managed to create a stable computer industry. In October 1962 the "Commission for Scientific Problems in Computing" (Комиссия Научные Вопросы ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
