On Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 08:02:44PM +1100, Andrew Davie wrote:
> there a web site or inventory of early Russian
computers like the Russian
> Calculator site run by our fellow friend AD? Was there a system similar to
> SAGE? (I loved Jim Willings pictures.) What is the history of the early
> Russian computer development like?
Comprehensive Computer Catalogue lists some Russian machines -- search it
using country name 'USSR'. (I really should extract some data out of books
I have and send an update to maintainer...)
Indeed.
http://www.computer-museum.ru/
The first "glass jar" leads to computer pictures. I hope your Cyrillic is
good.
Some interesting pictures, you'll have to work hard to read the data :)
Some more sites to visit:
http://www.uniyar.ac.ru/museum/
http://rdc.cch.pmc.ru/
http://www.users.itl.net.ua/~prool/BK-0010.html
http://people.weekend.ru/vanyas/museumbk/
http://www-win.alex.krsk.ru/198_/1988/1988_06.htm
http://www.dorje.com:8080/netstuff/folklore/soviet.comps
I'll post more URLs later.
--
Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru