The history of computer technology development spans many pages. Sumy State University not only implements the latest IT technologies but also takes care of preserving old technical devices that have faded into the past but have not lost their historical value.
The Museum of Computer Technology, operating at SumDU, has about 200 exhibits. Among them are electronic computing machines and server systems, network equipment, calculators of various generations, graphic systems, magnetic tape storage devices, memory blocks on ferrite rings, perforators, and more.
The oldest device presented in the museum is the “Felix” arithmetic machine from the 1950s. Particularly noteworthy is the ES EVM. Its counterparts served the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 and were used in all Soviet enterprises. Visitors enthusiastically explore the devices of the first electronic computing machines “Nairi” and “Promin” at the university, personal computers like “Iskra-1030” and “Istra,” rare “Mice” and floppy disks, projection systems, and more.
The museum walls feature informational boards with the history of computer technology development, portraits, and biographies of eminent scientists, stages of the formation of the information and telecommunication system of SumDU.
The idea of creating the museum arose in 2003 from the moment of unification of IT laboratories at SumDU into the Center for Computer Technologies.
The museum is located in room C-231.
For excursion organization inquiries, please contact the head of the Center for Computer Technologies, A.G. Piven (C150, phone: 687-808, mobile: 0996199615, email: [email protected]).
