Talk:Polandball/@comment-212.14.52.2-20160711145853/@comment-212.14.52.2-20160711191921

Jacek Karpinski (born 1927), genius and inventor constructing first microcomputers world could hear about. In the time of huge multiple room size computers operated by multiple people in aprons, he came out with the idea of first ever suitcase size computer! When he wanted to start the production of it, the communistic government didn't agree for that, explaining that a personal computer is a fantasy, it's impossible to do and if it was, Americans would do that. He was stubborn and showed his project to English in London.They were shocked and wanted to produce it right away. He patriotically wanted to produce it in Poland, so the British asked the polish government to let them do that. They couldn't say it's impossible to do anymore and eventually led the actual production start. First copies went out to a few polish production and research facilities with a great success... And this was the worst thing, that could happen to the country's leadership. The computer was so good, fast, cheap and easy to manufacture, that it was ruining all the ridiculous communistic plans like creating useless vacancies, so everyone had a job no matter the costs, etc. Also was a competitor to polish and soviet unwieldy computers employed in factories at that time. Suddenly it turned out, that most of facilities with their directors, managers, who all were political activists, could become redundant, while like just several dozens of people were needed to build the computer. It couldn't be accepted. Soon he was considered harmless to the system, puting crimp in communists' plans and they decided to destruct him. In one day the production was closed, he was led out of the facility by force, the partially assemblied computers were destroyed and the English were told to get lost. There were only 30 copies manufactured, out of which half went to England. He was then prohibited to work in the industry and also forbidden traveling abroad. He even got job offer from Americans, which he couldn't respond to. After a few years of wandering around various institutions doing some random paper work, he finally settled in the countryside and began breeding pigs! Asked once by a journalist about it, he answered, he prefers "dealing with THIS kind of pigs". He also constructed several other innovative devices like Pen Reader (pen like hand scanner), voice-controlled robot, also medical, weather, etc. The ideas he came out with turned out to be revolutionary and not many people ever heard of him (even in Poland), but everytime his name is mentioned, he is considered polish Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. He died in 2010.