On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:55:30PM -0700, Doug Coward wrote:
> Does anyone know the make and model of some
> classic soviet computers? They don't have to
> be just "personal" computers. Big Iron is also
> acceptable.
Comprehensive Computer Catalogue <URL:
http://www.digiweb.com/~hansp/ccc/>
lists many machines of Big Iron class (search with country name "USSR"); no
size/weight information is available there.
Here's a list of URLs for present and future collectors of computing
hardware of Soviet/Russian origin. You'll need to know Russian (or have
translation software handy) to read most of them.
Use your imagination and <URL:
http://www.yandex.ru/>,
<URL:
http://www.aport.ru/>, <URL:
http://www.rambler.ru/> to find out more.
(Too bad that Deja.com treats 8-bit characters as white space...)
*** Computer museums
<URL:
http://www.computer-museum.ru/>
Virtual computer museum of Russia.
<URL:
http://www.uniyar.ac.ru/museum/>
Another virtual museum.
<URL:
http://www.philosophy.nsc.ru/life/journals/humscience/2_97/24_pokr.htm>,
An article about real computer museum.
*** Books and other sources of information
<URL:
http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/FRAME/books-fr.htm>
"History Computer Science Books"
(images of early Soviet computers are linked from this page.)
"Microprocessor devices and systems" (ISSN 0233-4844) -- many original
designs, frequently with schematics, were published there.
<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.
<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.
<URL:
http://www.cowo.de/archiv/1975/43/7543c024.html>
Die Sowjets bemu:hen sich aufzuholen (soviets strive to catch up)
*** Folklore
<URL:
http://www.dorje.com:8080/netstuff/folklore/soviet.comps>
<URL:
http://www.vpti.vladimir.ru/rus/archives/humor/es.html>
A piece of folklore about ES-10xx series of machines.
<URL:
http://www.cplus.fr/musee/english/games/tetris-e.html>
Yet Another Story of Tetris.
<URL:
http://clubgate.child.ru/~mrbear/slang.txt>
Computerese Slang Dictionary (Russian-to-Russian).
<URL:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=228171597>
"How original design was killed by The Mgt. and replaced by LSI-11
compatible one"
<URL:
http://www-win.alex.krsk.ru/198_/1988/1988_06.htm>
"Using OS DWK" (OS DWK is localized RT-11)
<URL:
nntp://fido7.mo.dec>
<URL:
nntp://fido7.su.mainframe>
<URL:
nntp://fido7.ru.bigblue>
<URL:
nntp://fido7.zx.spectrum>
<URL:
nntp://fido7.real.speccy>
These are FidoNet echomail conferences, bidirectionally gatewayed
to Usenet. See <URL:
http://www.fido7.ru/> for details.
*** Big Iron
<URL:
http://www.ipmce.ru/becm-1.htm>
BESM-1
<URL:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=143680621>
BESM-6 -- summary
<URL:
http://www.mailcom.com/besm6/>
BESM-6 emulator
<URL:
http://www.icmm.perm.su/eng/lab-10-tis/about/05-history.html>
BESM-6, El'Brus-1KB
<URL:
http://www.mte.ru/www/toim.nsf/b634b5261b8d9e7ec325661f0033c81d/15aea5330cbf4e02c325661e0023045f?OpenDocument>
El'brus
<URL:
http://www.hnf.de/museum/eser.html>
ES-1055? on display in Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
*** BK-0010
<URL:
http://www.users.itl.net.ua/~prool/BK-0010.html>
<URL:
http://people.weekend.ru/vanyas/museumbk/>
<URL:
http://www.halyava.ru/magicpage/>
Museum of BK-0010.
<URL:
http://rdc.cch.pmc.ru/>
BK-0010 emulator for the Amiga.
<URL:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=19671&a=92129&p=10285040>
A photo of 3 BK-0010's and a DWK-3.
*** Sinclair ZX Spectrum
<URL:
http://www.zx.ru/zx.ru/>
ZX Spectrum software museum.
<URL:
http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/articles/ragehard0191.htm>
A story about Hobbit, a clone of ZX Spectrum.
<URL:
http://www.uniyar.ac.ru/museum/zx/rus_zx.html>
Overview of different ZX Spectrum clones.
*** Misc
<URL:
http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html>
Cyrillic Charset Soup.
<URL:
http://www.chat.ru/~samosvl/>
Internet and education.
<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"
<URL:
http://kulichki.rambler.ru/moshkow/unixhelp/>
Some user documentation on Besta-88. Reportedly, Linux
<URL:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=329737050> and NetBSD
were ported to this machine.
<URL:
http://www.halyava.ru/pdp11/>
PDPC board -- a PDP-11 compatible processor on an ISA card.
<URL:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=341117190>
"This is full-size ISA board, called VAX/PC, which use original Zelenograd's
microprocessor series L1839 and support chips. It's analog of microVAX-II with
speed 1.9 MIPS and 8 (or may be more) MB of memory. The board have external
Q-bus interface for old devices. PC's software emulated VAX's periferals: RQDX-3
(hard & floppy disk controller), console VT-220, two serial ports and printer.
You may ask Victor Khromychev or Sergey Shisarin at IC design department of
"Angstrem" joint stock company. E-mail: dc320_at_angstrem.compnet.ru, phone:
+7-(095)-532-8105, fax +7-(095)-531-3270."
PK11/16 -- home computer
<URL:
http://www.metrex.ru/AbMetrex.htm> -- former manufacturer?
<URL:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=37394602>
*** Software
<URL:
http://www.epa.ru/>
(Commercial software) Emulator of IBM System 360 and System
370-series clones (ES-10xx) for Linux and OS/2.
<URL:
ftp://ftp.nit.spb.su/pub/pub/unix/Demos_2.2/Demos_2.2_for_DVK.tar>
DEMOS 2.2 -- UNIX for DWK-3
--
Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru
Received on Tue May 18 1999 - 01:58:59 BST