Gábor Kisdi

After graduating from the Academy of Music, he was a horn player in the Financial Guard Orchestra, then got a job in the orchestra of the Budapest Operetta Theatre. He loved astronomy – he received Gyula Lőcs's work on the programming language Algol 60 as a gift (by mistake) as a book about the star Algol. After reading it, he enrolled in the 3-year program design course of the Computer Science Training Center (Számok), where he was also taught by Árpád Dettrich, who invited him to the Information Processing Laboratory (Infelor) as a systems programmer.

From 1969 he worked as a program designer at Infelor. First he became familiar with the basic program system of the CII computer, then he participated in software export work. One of his jobs was to create the linkage loader for the Japanese FACOM-R assembler; in 1972 he worked in Japan for a quarter of a year on testing the entire system.

His other workplaces were the legal successors of Infelor: the Computer Applications Research Institute (Számki) – where he was a department head – and then the Computer Applications Company (Számalk).
In 1980, he was a visiting student at three Canadian universities (Ottawa, London Ontario, Calgary) on a 3-month UN scholarship.

Together with Tamás Bakos, they translated J. Donovan's book "Systems Programming", which was proofread by Gyula Lőcs. The book was published in 1977 and was the basic textbook for systems programmers for years.

From 1984 he worked at the Pension Payment Directorate, where he programmed various special tasks on PCs (e.g. annual review of rehabilitation awards). He retired from there in 1989.