23 Jul
2003
23 Jul
'03
9:22 a.m.
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?
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
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.
about a decade ago, when Lee Felsenstein was doing his campaign to
liberate Russia by giving the people microcomputers, ...
I did some disk format conversion of some Russian microcomputer disks from
a machine that was either made by Okidata, or copied from it. I never saw
the computer itself, just the diskettes. They had some Oki BIOS code in
track 0 (boot track), but with messsages tranlated into Russian and padded
out to replace the previous message. They used a MICROS~1 "Stand-Alone
BASIC" directory structure, like what NEC did, that later got modified
into the Coco directory. (and which was what inspired Patterson to use
the F.A.T. system in DOS, and the 400K/800K Mac directory structure)
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