Soviet/Russian classic computers?

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:55:30PM -0700, Doug Coward wrote: 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(a)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