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TheTimişoara Polytechnic Institute Electronic Computer (Romanian: Mașina Electronică de Calcul Institutul Politehnic Timişoara), known asMECIPT, is the name used for a family of computers built from 1961 to 1968 at thePolytechnic University of Timișoara inRomania.

MECIPT-1 was afirst generation computer built by Iosif Kaufmann and Wilhelm Lowenfeld (1956–1962), a team joined in 1961 by Vasile Baltac.^[1][2] This was the secondcomputer built inRomania afterVictor Toma built theCIFA-1 in 1957, and the first in a Romanian university.MECIPT-2 (1962) andMECIPT-3 (1965) followed as second and third generation computer technology.

Parts of MECIPT 1 and 2 were exhibited in the Museum ofBanat.^[3] and are now in the UPT Museum^[4] In 2011, a 50th anniversary celebration was organized inTimişoara to recall the importance of the MECIPT computers to Romania.^[5]

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