At 12:10 4/16/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Does anyone on the list have any Soviet-manufactured systems? This might
>be a good thing to look for when (whoever it was that wrote the list that
>he was going to Hungary soon) goes over there.
Er.... When we fell heir to the big heap of Apple stuff outside Sacramento,
one of the things we found when we dug in a bit was a Soviet Apple ][ clone
called an Elektronika. I can't quote chapter and verse because we haven't
really unbuttoned it yet, but it would seem that the really astounding part
isn't the computer, it's the monitor. We also have schematics and, when I
have a bit more (i. e. nonzero) free time, I'm going to ferret out someone
who can read them. Max would probably be a good start!
Also, for a source on this, remember that in _TCJ_ a guy named Helmut
Jungkunz wrote a bunch of columns about both Soviet and East German computers.
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Received on Thu Apr 16 1998 - 13:53:03 BST