Tamas Vidor

After completing his university studies, he was employed at the Information Processing Laboratory (Infelor). He began his professional work in the Programming Department led by Bálint Dömölki. Initially, his task was to improve and expand the software supply of the company's MINSZK-2 computer, and then, with the start of the preparation of the Unified Computer System (ESZR) program in 1968, he became involved in this work. At first, his task was to get to know the IBM hardware and software that served as a model by studying the available professional materials. With the start of international negotiations, he initially participated in the work of the C-1 council (architecture and basic software), and then he also became involved in the work of the C-7 council (remote data processing).

In 1973, at the suggestion of Lajos Pesti, he transferred to the then-forming National Computer Company (OSZV), led by Róbert Bálint, whose task was to provide technical support for incoming ESZR machines. Here, his task was to organize the software supply for the machines; from this grew the later National Software Archive and Library (OSAK).

At the end of 1980, he joined the first Hungarian software cooperative, Softcoop, founded by László Pintér. From then on, the main focus of his activity was participation in Western European software projects. His more than 10 years of ESZR/IBM experience and his multi-lingual skills provided an excellent basis for this.

Since the early 1990s, he has been working as an independent IT specialist in West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany, FRG). First in Northern Germany, as an external expert for the then NIS (Norddeutsche Informations-Systeme), which supplied software to the largest shipyards, and then from 1996 at the development institute of Deutsche Telekom in Darmstadt. Here, he played a major role in the successful implementation of the “Year 2000” project and then the EURO implementation project within the framework of database migration.

After returning home in 2004, he continued to work on foreign projects, first as an external employee of Tata Systems Services (TCS) in India and later as an external employee of Deutsche Wertpapier Bank (DWP) in Germany, until his retirement in 2014.