The pupils of school №12 of Cheboksary visited the Computer Engineering Museum which operates at the Department of Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies of I. Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University. For the pupils from the 6th to the 8th grades associate professors of the department, Tatiana Kopysheva and Alina Gerasimova, received the lecture called “The history of Computer Engineering”, during which the pupils learned that all progress, from counting on fingers to computing on heavy-duty computers, consists of three stages of the computer technology development - home-mechanic, mechanical, electronic computing. The pupils were shown how the calculations were carried out using a slide rule, an arithmometer and an abacus.
The Computer Engineering Museum has unique exhibits such as: arithmometer “Bystritsa-2”, arithmometer “VK-2”, arithmometer “Felix”, a slide rule, an abacus, movie projector “Raduga-2” KP-1M (produced by Kiev KINAP factory since 1977), keyboard “BPK Elara-128", microcalculator “MK-61”, typewriter “Listvitsa”, video monitor “Electronics 32 VTTs 101”, electronic calculator “Electronics 155”, slide projector “LETI”, electronics Microcomputer BK 001 and etc.
“Electronics MK-44” and “Yamaha KUVT” were of particular interest among the pupils. “Electronics MK-44” is a twelve-digit power supply calculator designed to perform mathematical, economic and accounting calculations by non-professional accountants. “Yamaha KUVT” is a complex of educational computing equipment based on household computers of MSX standard presented by Yamaha.
These devices were used at the first stage of informatization of education in some educational institutions of the USSR and were operated from the mid-1980s to the beginning of the 1990s. These devices were used at the first stage of informatization of education in some educational institutions of the USSR and were operated from the mid-1980s to the beginning of the 1990s. The computers used as part of the complexes were serial models specially adapted for deliveries to the USSR. The computers used as part of the complexes were serial models specially adapted for deliveries to the USSR. They had a Russified keyboard and software, as well as the KUVT and KUVT2 logos (the figure indicated the version of the MSX standard). (KUVT is a complex of training computing engineering)

Photo by T. Kolysheva