Commodore CBM/PET in Terminator 3

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Wed Jul 23 10:14:01 2003

Please tell me (us) more about the PDP-11 clones? Do you have any
model numbers, pictures, or web sites for them?

--tom

At 07:51 AM 7/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Mark Firestone wrote:
>
> > They had computers in East Germany? Wow. What was it, some sort of Soviet
> > PDP clone or something?
>
>They had computers throughout the former Soviet Union. You'd be amazed at
>the number of clones of western computers that were produced, not to
>mention original designs throughout the Union in the various satellite
>states.
>
>The computer I got was by a company called Robotron, which was a fairly
>large East German computer manufacturer. They did indeed produce a clone
>of the PDP-11. One of these systems is on display at the Computer History
>Museum.
>
>The computer I have is a Robotron A5120. It's based on a cloned 8080
>microprocessor. It has an 8" floppy disks built into the cabinet along
>with the CRT. It's a heavy beast. I also got an additional chassis with
>two more 8" drives, plus the main computer had a naked 5.25" rigged up to
>it.
>
>Here's a website with more information (in Deutsch) and a picture of what
>it looks like. The one I have is the one on the left.
>
>http://www.robotron-net.de/pc_s.html
>
>Scroll down for even more cool designs.
>
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