The Development of Information Technologies in the USSR: Memories of Kazan Computer Developers

Presents a number of aspects of the history of electronic computers in Kazan in the second half of the twentieth veka.Na based developer of computer memories Kazan discusses organization design departments, building and testing models of cars of different generations, mission-critical projects that had defense implications. Attention is paid to the specific characteristics of memories as a source, which, despite the paucity of information of a technical nature, contains a variety of information from everyday life KB workers inside and outside the plant. It is possible to reconstruct the human face of the domestic history of computer technology to better understand the position of both supporters and opponents of technological progress, and most importantly-pomoch the younger generation to understand why a person as an end and not a means, should act measure for assessing the government´s actions and the state whole.