First polish computers part 1. Polish calculating machines were created already at the beginning of the 1950’. They were elaborated by the people who didn’t fear failures. On 23 December 1948 in a small, dark room in the Experimental Physichs Institute, in Hoza street in Warsaw, six people had a meeting. They had just received a special task – create the first polish computer. Three months earlier the Americans had announced the first tests of an immense, composed of eighteen thousand electric lamps, calculating machine – ENIAC. It was the beginning of a an era of computer science – even though at the time this specific term was known only to a very limited sphere of specialists. In that period Poland was in the midst of dealing with its serious post-war problems. The country was almost totally ruined, cut out from every source of any western technology and terrorized by the shadow of soviet dictator - Stalin. The secret communist police followed and hunted down dissidents, false political processes were common and independent newspapers were shut down one by one. Not even the scientists gathered in the Institute could feel safe and secure. Many of them were in clear opposition to the communist values propagated violently by the new government.