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Romania Computers and Automation Technology
The high-status automation-technology and computer
industries
received priority treatment during the 1970s and 1980s.
Plants
began producing a wide range of computers, peripherals,
industrial
electronic measuring equipment, and electronic control
systems for
domestic consumption and export--primarily to other
Comecon and
Third-World countries. In 1973 the United States firm
Control Data
Corporation set up a joint venture with the Bucharest
Industrial
Central for Electronics and Automation--known as the
Rom-Control-
Data Company--to manufacture and market computer disk
drives and
printers. The joint venture was among the most successful
operating
on Romanian territory and was earning an annual profit of
7 to 8
percent in the late 1980s. More than a dozen major
automationtechnology plants and research centers were located in
Bucharest by
the mid-1980s, and facilities had also been built in such
cities as
Timisoara and Cluj-Napoca. In the late 1980s the Bucharest
Computer Enterprise was producing fourth-generation
Independent
microcomputers, and its Felix models found application in
machinetool control, data transmission, and robotics. Romania
intended to
double its production of computer equipment during the
Eighth FiveYear Plan.
Data as of July 1989
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