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Hungary High Technology
Hungary has developed a small but viable computer
industry
since the late 1960s. The Videoton electronics firm, which
was
one of Eastern Europe's most aggressive computer
manufacturers,
developed several computer models in the 1970s and has
exported
its computer products to West Germany, Austria, Finland,
and the
Comecon countries. Economic reforms in the early 1980s
cleared
the way for state firms, research institutes, private
partnerships, and even individuals to manufacture personal
computers. Hungary possessed impressive software-producing
capability, and many Western countries have purchased
Hungarian
programs or subcontracted with Hungarian designers to
develop
software. Unfortunately, the microelectronics industry
suffered a
major blow in 1986 when a fire gutted its most important
plant,
located in Budapest. In 1986 the high-technology industry
produced 5,128 small computers, 145,717 semiconductors,
and
20,690 integrated circuits.
Data as of September 1989
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