COMPROJECT Computer Technology Limited Liability Company

It was born from one of Vilati's computer development departments, with the plan to offer a solution to the unique needs of customers of the TPA-70, TPA-1140... computers, previously designed at KFKI and mass-produced at Vilati. These needs were not addressed by the design and manufacturing companies.

Its activities later expanded in 1982, based on an agreement with SZTAKI, with the development, operation and installation of the GD80 product.

Later, a development was started with a Motorola 68000-based microprocessor in a VME bus design.

The Comproject team decided to create a modular computer for more serious, industrial use, based on the ZX 80 and ZX Spectrum gaming computers used at the time. The design of the computer took place in garages and living rooms, from the mechanics to the power supply to the logic board, under the romantic circumstances of the time.

Later, it undertook to breathe life into the GD80 graphics computer designed at SZTAKI and manufactured at HTSZ, i.e. to create a device that operated by measuring from the manufactured panels and other units. Furthermore, Comproject also carried out the installation of the devices and, if necessary, their repair, until 1985.

During this time, other staff at Comproject also engaged in the previously mentioned activity, they built a Z80-based computer in several configurations. This was sold to a few places.
Later, a development was started with a Motorola 68000-based microprocessor in a VME bus design. Comproject sold several systems in that design, where the 68000 processor machine was the host and the Z80 small computers were the workstations.

At the end of 1985, half of the staff left Comprojec and wanted to continue working on the then-launching IBM PC line.

Over time, the company received fewer and fewer orders to manufacture and deliver these systems, and finally dissolved in 2003 due to a lack of orders.

After 1985, the remaining employees of Comproject continued to work with Motorola-based systems. This made it possible, for example, to develop the then COCOM-listed VME systems, which resulted in the formation of the electronics department at VERTESZ with Comproject specialists, who developed the ITM6800 VME industrial computer, which received the BMV Grand Prize. It was primarily used in the TITÁSZ area as a data collection system. These ITM6800 systems were still in operation in 2010 (e.g. Debrecen Tócoskert substation). The VERTESZ team formed VERTESZ elektronika Kft., which is still in operation today (2010).

After 1990, using the results, a system was sold to the Paks Nuclear Power Plant. The company wanted to replace the primary circuit data collector of the units operating in the nuclear power plant – which had the fancy name Hindukus. After that, the aforementioned measurement data collection systems were delivered and put into operation for all four units of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant on an annual schedule. Of course, the parameters of the new equipment had to be much better than the original Russian version. The structure of the delivered system is roughly as follows: data is sent from 5 data collection cabinets to MicroVax (DEC) computers via TCP/IP communication and the calculations performed here formed the basic values for the reactor control. This made it possible to produce 500 MW with greater safety with the previously 440 MW reactors.
Comproject later started a new project, this is the use of OCR. It offered solutions in particular in the field of vehicle license plate recognition. Such as. the license plate to be recorded during laser speed measurement, but it is also suitable as part of car access control systems. Two of its major customers to mention were the Police and the Border Guard, for mobile license plate recognition systems installed in cars and fixed license plate recognition systems installed at border crossings.