SAPO (samočinny počitač = automatic computer) | jan oblonsky, some features of the czechoslovak relay computer SAPO, datamation, pp. 34-36 (jan/feb 1958).

SAPO was built under the supervision of Dr. Antonin Svoboda, who is a member and former director of the Institute and a docent at the Technical College in Prague. Jan Oblonsky designed SAPO's logic.

during the war svoboda went to france, later on he worked for the MIT radiation lab.

Recently Svoboda delivered a series of lectures on digital computers in Peking during a two-week visit. He lectured in English to a class of ten, and in addition delivered some public lectures which were translated into Chinese. There are three separate computer groups in Peking, one building a BESM, one building an M-3, and one building a Mark III (a parallel drum machine), all with Chinese components though Russian | nelson m. blachman, 1959

see also: blachman, the state of digital computer technology in europe, 1961