The former software programmer, who was born in Hungary during the Cold War years, also had a chance to tour the Baikonur Museum, where he came what he called a "familiar computer."
"Among other things we saw this Ural-1 computer from the 1950's that used vacuum tubes instead of transistors or microchips. Each of the lamp-size tubes behind me can store just one bit of information...I learned programming in 1964 on an Ural-2 which is a bigger version of this very machine, using the same technology."
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