Pravetz (computer)
Native name | Правец |
|---|---|
| Company type | Public |
| Industry | Computer hardware Electronics |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Founder | Engineer Ivan Vasilev Marangozov |
| Headquarters | Pravets, Bulgaria, near Sofia, Bulgaria |
Area served | Bulgaria |
| Products | Desktops, servers, notebooks, netbooks |
Pravetz (Bulgarian: Правец) is a brand of personal computers produced in Bulgaria from 1979. They were widely used in scientific organizations and schools until the 1990s.
Pravets were the first personal computers made in Bulgaria. Before that, various types of large computer systems were used, the size of rooms (60-70), as well as even vacuum tube computers before that. The name of the Pravets computers comes from the city where they were manufactured, called Pravetz, ("Правец" in Bulgarian) alongside with some components and software being produced in other towns as Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and other Bulgarian cities.
Pravetz computers are still in use in some schools such as NPH of CTS (National Professional High school of Computer Technological Systems "НПГ по КТС" ), locally also known as UKTC. and TSES (Technological School "Electric Systems", ТУЕС)[, similar to college for beginner students in computing, because they are adapted in manufacturing for educational purposes.
Bulgaria was the leading manufacturer, with its leading trademark Pravetz, of computer and peripherals electronics for the socialist economic union COMECON in 20th century.