KGM Ferrous Metallurgy Directorate computer center

The Ministry of Metallurgy and Mechanical Industry established the KGM Ferrous Metallurgy Directorate in 1950, which existed until 1980, when KGM and NIM were merged into the Ministry of Industry.

A department was established within the Directorate, which performed research and educational tasks. They taught the staff of the KGM and the students of the Institute of Engineering Continuing Education – which was part of the Budapest University of Technology (BME). In 1962/63, a National-Elliott 803/B computer was installed in the department, and thus the Computing Center of the Ferrous Metallurgy Directorate was established, which was located at 7 Október 6-a utca in Budapest.

Here, as well as at the NIM IGÜSZI – Institute of Industrial Economics and Plant Management of the Ministry of Heavy Industry, Hungary's first two Western-origin transistor computers, the National-Elliott 803/Bt, were installed in 1962.

The computer center of the Ferrous Metallurgy Directorate primarily performed programming and computer engineering tasks for the companies of KGM, such as the Dunai Vasmű.

The computer center was closed between 1980-1982.

Here and in NIM IGÜSZI, the first Western computers, the ELLIOTT 803s, were located.