Laszlo Bodnar

After graduating from university, he immediately took a position at the Central Physical Research Institute (KFKI), where the development of devices used in measurement (technology) and computing, based on revolutionary digital technology - first transistor and then integrated circuit - was taking place. He began to deal with the production, calibration and servicing of the new devices and their components; he participated in the organization of related activities, and later became the director of this organizational unit.

In 1968, he participated in the creation of the first TPA-1001 computer. Between 1969 and 1972, as a KFKI delegate, he carried out the introduction and management of certain tasks of production and measurement in the Servintern Electric Measuring Instrument Cooperative.

Between 1973 and 1975, he assisted in the applications of KFKI's measurement and computing equipment in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

After returning home, he was the head of department responsible for the coordination of production and servicing of the Experimental Plant of the KFKI Institute of Measurement and Computing (MSZKI) (and its legal predecessors) for more than a decade.

When KFKI was transformed, in 1990, he became the managing director of KFKI Direkt Kft., which was formed from its department, until his retirement in 2001. Direkt Kft. dealt with the distribution of PCs, and the design, installation and servicing of mixed systems and networks of KFKI and DEC minicomputers and PCs.