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Računari

The Belgrade magazine that published a computer you could build

Računari began in Belgrade in January 1984 with a special issue, Računari u vašoj kući, carrying complete self-build instructions for a home computer. The machine was the Galaksija, designed — the issue says — by one man, Voja Antonić, in under a month.

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Računari was published in Belgrade from January 1984. This library holds 140 issues to December 1998.

It opens with a special edition, Računari u vašoj kući — Computers in Your House — priced at 200 dinars, written by Dejan Ristanović and issued under the imprint of Galaksija. Its cover offers a survey of how to choose and use a computer, a 32-page beginners’ programming insert, and one thing no other launch issue in this Vault offers:

“kompletno uputstvo za samogradnju kućnog kompjutera”

Complete instructions for building a home computer yourself.

The magazine printed the machine

The computer was the Galaksija, and the issue says who made it:

“Računar «Galaksija» je projektovao jedan jedini čovek, Voja Antonić, za nepunih mesec dana.”

The Galaksija was designed by a single man, Voja Antonić, in under a month — and, the same passage says, barely a few months passed from the first idea to the first examples appearing.

The stated purpose is that enthusiasts should “finally come to their first machine”, and that the project should break the myth surrounding computers.

This is the sharpest illustration in this library of what geography did to computing. Elsewhere a magazine told you which computer to buy. In Brazil, where imports were restricted, a domestic industry built licensed and cloned machines instead. In Yugoslavia a magazine printed the circuit and the listing and let readers build one.

Afterwards

The run held continues monthly to December 1998 — through the end of the state it began in. Across its pages the most-named machine is the PC, at roughly 40% of machine mentions in 1984–87, ahead of the Amstrad; the C64 is named in about one mention in twenty.

⚠ This entry is built from the January 1984 issue and from measurements across the run, and the Serbo-Croatian OCR is rough. This library holds no secondary account of Računari, so nothing here describes its later editorial history, its circulation, or how it handled the wars that ended Yugoslavia.

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