Calculadoras Cifra: una experiencia pionera en diseño y producción electrónica en América Latina (Argentina 1969-1976)

Abstract

At the end of the 1960s, a private company with national capital undertook a process of techno-productive diversification and led the design and manufacture of electronic calculators in Argentina. This article analyzes the trajectory of the Argentine Gummed Fabric Factory (fate) during the second phase of the import substitution model and of two research centers belonging to the University of Buenos Aires: the Calculus Institute of the Faculty of Exact Sciences and the Department of Electronics of the Faculty of Engineering. Likewise, it analyzes how the 1966 coup d'état promoted the convergence of these trajectories and the creation of the Electronic Division of fate. Finally, it analyzes the development of knowledge-intensive technologies in a semiperipheral country.