Career
In 1968, Makanec established the Multimedia Center of the Zagreb University Referral Center (MMC). The MMC was an open type computer center intended to be used for non-numerical purposes. The MMC was equipped with a Hewlett-Packard Himachal Pradesh 2000 Time-Sharing BASIC system, computer terminals, and teleprinter.
The MMC, during nearly twenty years of existence, gave thousands of children and students an opportunity to learn programming and socialise with people of similar interests.
Makanec graduated from the Electrotechnical Faculty in Zagreb in 1961. Establishing a cybernetics group at the university in 1962, he designed a TIOSS (remote self-organizing system) robot prototype that displayed rudimentary Artificial Intelligence behaviour like handing out the pamphlets to public.
