Oscar Toledo Esteva in the decade of the 70's, designer of the computers G1 to G11.

Oscar Toledo Esteva, Mexican scientist of zapotec origin, nominated for the scholarship 1998 in humanities for the foundation Rockefeller of the University of California, contestant for the prize Prince of Asturias 1999, developer of computation equipment with own technology and a endless number of programs of computation and other inventions; lecturer in UPICSSA, ENEP, UNAM, CBTI, ITESM, ITSSNP, ITS-Zacapoaxtla, ESIME, CCUJS, UVM, ITV, CECATI, CECAP&A, CBTIS, ITT, ITST, CONALEP, TESCO, UDV, etc.

Oscar Toledo Esteva is born April 21 of 1946 in Sidar, Oaxaca, in a station of workers of the railroad, near Juchitan City. First-born of Jose Toledo Orozco and Cecilia Esteva Martinez, inhabited a horizontal condominium for workers of the rail of railroads, the zapotec is the language of the isthmus region, which was his maternal language.

In Sidar there was not school, his great-grandmother Mrs. Severa Luis Lopez (Na Severa Teo) that resided in Juchitan took it to live with her, she was the most famous cook and confectioner of the region. In Juchitan it studied the first school year until the third degree in the school Adolfo C. Gurrion of the fifth section, later the four to the sixth degree in the central school of Juchitan.

When it studied the third school degree, in the afternoons, the students practiced manual works making toys with manual coping saws, using wood or fiber. Later he continued his work at home, builting tanguyú (toys of clay) that later cooked to obtain bigger hardness.

From very small it contracted the liking for the electronics, to the 10 years it had already manufactured, with a box of shoes, some waste batteries, a focus of a hand lantern and a lens, a projector of transparencies with it offered functions for his friends.

Master of the electronic craft, one of the most astonishing qualities of Oscar Toledo is to be completely autodidact. After abandoning the primary school in Juchitan, Oaxaca, he arrived to the Mexico City in 1959, its previous knowledge of electronic and radio repair earned him quickly a good reputation in the repair shops that disputed him for being faithful to the work.

In 1969 while he repaired televisions and audio amplifiers, he already built digital logic modules to get ready for the previous phase in the design of a versatile computer and economic for productive tasks, capable of manage any peripheral.

In 1979 he finished his first computer, was an imperfect machine, but it was sufficiently good to allow the development of the eleven generation computer third version (G11V3), able to compete with the current commercial computers.

While the computer equipments to those that we are accustomed you they take place in big companies, with engineers' staff granted a doctorate in the most prestigious institutions, Oscar Toledo Esteva works quietly and self-employed, leaning, that yes, in their family and in a indefatigable spirit of superation.

The computer generation 11 version 3 is the proof of the effort, the ethic and the devotion of a man and his family that has forged a way based on the traditional juchiteca's principles. A man that, on following his dreams, has demostrated that the true science must be at the service of all the humankind.

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—Lo Bueno También Cuenta—, is a program transmitted to 478 cities by the TVC channel and radio, conduced by César Costa and Luhana Gardi. In march 3rd. they interviewed the Toledo Family, and presented to the audience the extense technology developed, some of the advances showed includes our new model of Educative Computer.

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