Hungary is to start production of colour television sets. Plans are underway at the United Incandescent Lamp Factory in Budapest to set manufacture in motion, following the experimental start of colour transmission last March using the Secam system.
So starts a story in Electronics Weekly's issue of May 28 1969.
The story continues: 'Demand for colour sets is expected to approach 50,000 in the first two years, and when fully implemented to rise to 250,000.
'This factory, too, is also working on semiconductors for the computer industry and plans to buy production licences from abroad to speed up development.'
'Semiconductor output last year at the factory rose 40 per cent to a total of 28 million units, these being a mixture of diodes and transistors', concludes the report.
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'This factory, too, is also working on semiconductors for the computer industry and plans to buy production licences from abroad to speed up development.'
'Semiconductor output last year at the factory rose 40 per cent to a total of 28 million units, these being a mixture of diodes and transistors', concludes the report.
TOMORROW MORNING: TOP TEN SEMICONDUCTOR CRITICAL SUB-SYSTEM SUPPLIERS
Ah, I remember when Hungary made pocket calculators too - the only country in the Warsaw Pact that seemed able to produce consumer electronics worth a candle. Wouldn't mind one for the collection: I've got a rather fine Russian transistor radio (with the transistors in little sockets yet, just like valves), that's a masterpiece of WW2 construction style updated slightly for the 1960s.