This is cool to see. I'm from the area (although a different country), but when I was little, my father often said, 'fetch me the digitron,' referring to a pocket calculator.
It was only after many years that I realized it's an actual company.
You might be from Slovenia then. I occasionally pass by the Slovenian reddit and sometimes see stories about interesting computers and designs from Yugoslavia times.
I hope to spend a month on a vacation in Slovenia this summer and visit the Računalniški muzej in Ljubljana. There's a retro computer museum in Rijeka, Croatia as well, which I unfortunately missed last year.
P.S. Regular reader for years but never commented any post. I did an account just to put light on that camera thing. Even worse because the site is EU (so government) funded.
When the cartoon image of the db 800 scrolled into view, I couldn't help poking it a few times to see if it was "live" since programming that would be a few hours' work for someone these days. I guess we can move mountains now (as long as there's no metal stamping and plastic injection involved).
"Beyond the Iron Curtain" technology companies are really interesting. My favourite is Pravetz, makers of wonderful, wonderful clones of the computers of the 80's.
What it must have been like, to see all the Western kids getting tons of software and different computing platforms, and then .. a few years later .. see the clones of all the machines arriving locally.
Still on the lookout for my favourite Pravetz, the 8D (Oric/Atmos clone) .. if only to complete the collection. I doubt I'll use the Cyrillic modifications much.
Yugoslavia really wasn't beyond the Iron Curtain. After the Tito-Stalin split in 1948 it was "unaligned", still communist but sitting on two chairs. Lots of technology from the West was imported, even our sole nuclear power-plant was built by Westinghouse in the 80's. Sure, there was also lots of technology from the Eastern bloc (especially East Germany) and attempts to build things domestically. It was a weird mix.
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