Iskra Delta

{{Short description|Slovenian computer manufacturer}}

{{One source|date=November 2007}}

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Iskra Delta was a computer manufacturer from Slovenia, and one of the biggest computer producers in SFR Yugoslavia that saw its own end with the breakup of the country.{{Cite web |title=The Highest Mountain and the First Computer in Slovenia |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-highest-mountain-and-the-first-computer-in-slovenia-computer-history-museum-in-slovenia/EAVxeitQwjmMQg?hl=en |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en}} It started in 1974 as Elektrotehna, the Ljubljana representative of Digital Equipment Corporation, a USA minicomputer manufacturer with an office in Belgrade. It began assembling PDP-11 minicomputers in Ljubljana from DEC processors and Ampex disks in 1978. Rapid expansion over all major Yugoslav Republics. It had a joint venture with Energoinvest, Sarajevo. Video terminals' assembly was in Paka, Slovenj Gradec.{{Cite web |date=2021-03-08 |title=Retro video terminal experience at the Computer History Museum Slovenia - Računalniški muzej |url=https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/retro-video-terminal-experience-at-the-slovenian-computer-history-museum/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |language=sl-SI}} Forced merger with Iskra and Gorenje computer divisions resulted in Iskra-Delta's enlargement to 2,000 employees. Delays with microcomputer technology and freer import brought its collapse in 1988.{{Cite journal |last=Čengić |first=Drago |date=2000-02-01 |title=Karl Polanyi: Velika preobrazba, Politički i ekonomski izvori našeg vremena |journal=Revija za socijalnu politiku |volume=7 |issue=2 |doi=10.3935/rsp.v7i2.262 |issn=1845-6014|doi-access=free }}

Iskra Delta's bankruptcy proceedings began on February 5, 1990 and were completed in February 2021, after 31 years.