G'day,
This publication may be of interest to those willing to collect Soviet
computers (I never saw it, just found a reference to it in
<URL:
http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/gio/paperlist.html>.)
74. Wegner, Peter, J. Nestor, E. Schonberg, S. Smoliar, P.J.
Weinberger, G. Wiederhold, and P. Wolcott: System Software for
Soviet Computers; FASAC Technical Assessment Report, Science
Applications International Corporation, McLean VA, August 1989.
Another possible source of information: Charles Babbage Institute of
Computer History, National Bureau of Standards collection:
<URL:
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/inv/nbs3.htm>
* ---. Soviet Cybernetics Technology: I. Soviet Cybernetics, 1959-
1962, 1963 Jun. NBS #: 6303048.
* ---. Soviet Cybernetics Technology: II. General Characteristics of
Several Soviet Computers, 1963 Aug. NBS #: 6303052.
* ---. Soviet Cybernetics Technology: III, Programming Elements of
the BESM, STRELA, URAL, M-3, and KIEV Computers, 1963 Sep. NBS #:
6326275.
* ---. Soviet Cybernetics Technology: V. Soviet Process Control
Computers, 1965 Nov. NBS #: 6526276.
More:
<URL:
http://neptune.fedworld.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?waisdocid=1316428519+25+0+0&waisaction=retrieve>
Chip in the Curtain - Computer Technology in the Soviet Union (1989)
<URL:
http://neptune.fedworld.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?waisdocid=1316428519+24+0+0&waisaction=retrieve>
Parallel Processing Research in the Former Soviet Union. (1992)
<URL:
http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/FRAME/books-fr.htm>
"History Computer Science Books"
(images of early Soviet computers are linked from this page)
<URL:
http://www.alink.net/~avg/tetris.c>
A remake of Tetris, with look-n-feel of original version.
<URL:
http://windoms.sitek.net/~fiks/tetris.zip>
"Tetris" for the MK-85 calculator.
<URL:
http://www.zhurnal.ru/1/maslov.htm>
"Early days of Internet in Russia"
(I know of an ES-1010 that to this day runs MISS.)
<URL:
http://kulichki.rambler.ru/moshkow/unixhelp/>
Some user documentation on Besta-88. Reportedly, Linux
<URL:
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=329737050> and NetBSD
were ported to this machine.
<URL:
http://www.vpti.vladimir.ru/rus/archives/humor/es.html>
A piece of folklore about ES-10xx series of machines. These are
"almost, but not quite, entirely different" :-) clones of IBM 360
series, except ES-1010, which is a clone of Mitra 225, and emulates
IBM 360 instruction set in software (if need arises).
<URL:
nntp://fido7.mo.dec>
<URL:
nntp://fido7.ru.bigblue>
<URL:
nntp://fido7.su.mainframe>
<URL:
nntp://fido7.zx.spectrum>
<URL:
nntp://fido7.real.speccy>
<URL:
nntp://fido7.ru.amiga>
These are FidoNet echomail conferences, bidirectionally gatewayed
to Usenet. See <URL:
http://www.fido7.ru/> for details.
--
Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru
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