Museum of science and technology. Micro-macro processor and a model of the Orgov telescope.

Museum of science and technology. Micro-macro processor and a model of the Orgov telescope.

I used to go to the military department reluctantly. Games of secrecy, mildewed notebooks, and microelectronics thirty years out of date. But at the end it was as if I'd been struck by an electric current. Actually, they taught us how to build a processor out of transistors. And now, in the Yerevan museum, I examined with great curiosity a stand on which a processor is assembled. It has all the main components: temporary memory, semi-permanent memory, the executive logic unit and all the other guts.

Gorbachev once visited Yerevan. The meeting was attended by Armenia's scientists, including Ambartsumian. Gorbachev carelessly and needlessly interrupted Ambartsumian. The latter listened completely calmly and held a pause. After which he asked a question: "And do you remember who was king in Newton's time?" Gorbachev answered: "No." Ambartsumian, just as unflappably, commented: "In exactly the same way, our descendants won't remember who was president in Ambartsumian's time."

In the photos - a model of the Orgov observatory. Its main highlight is the radio telescope, which was also an optical one at the same time. This marvel of engineering and scientific thought was designed by Paris Herouni. It was very funny, digging through the archive, to find our own photos taken next to the tower - a part of the model.

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