29 Jan
1999
29 Jan
'99
9:28 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 09:34:58AM -0500, Jerome Fine wrote:
> I recently posted about the Soviet BK-0010
computer.
> I've since found out a bit more information about it. I'm reliably told
> that it has an actual PDP-11 processor inside it - and I naturally assumed
> it was a PDP-11 clone. Its not. In fact, it is a computer-in-a-keyboard,
> somewhat akin to the Commodore 64. The whole thing weighs 2kg or
> thereabouts. It's a simple home computer. There are two versions - a
> membrane keyboard (with brightly coloured keys!) and a "normal" keyboard
Jerome Fine replies:
Is this computer able to run any of the PDP-11 OSs? Which ones? Does it
also have an OS which uses a Russian alphabet? Were any of there OSs
pirated from the original OSs when the CCCP did not pay any license fees
for western software?
Of DEC OSs, BK-0010 runs at least RT-11 5.3 (under name of Net-RT11); there
are other, custom OSs available (ANDOS, MKDOS, CSIDOS...) They do use
Russian alphabet.
There's a LOT to tell about this machine, but I'm not the right person to
do it. The whole story is big, and needs to be written by someone who "was
there". I only know random facts.
The right place to ask questions is news://fido7.mo.dec (which is
bidirectionally gatewayed from FidoNet echo MO.DEC on 2:5020 backbone.)
NB: go to http://www.fido7.ru/ before you post there.
Related URLs:
http://www.users.itl.net.ua/~prool/BK-0010.html
Short info about the machine
http://people.weekend.ru/vanyas/museumbk/
http://www.halyava.ru/magicpage/
Museum of BK-0010
http://rdc.cch.pmc.ru/
BK-0010 emulator for the Amiga
http://www.chat.ru/~samosvl/
Internet and education
http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=%22%E1%EA-0010%22&formal=on
Hits returned by Yandex search engine (arguably the best search
engine for pages in Russian)
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=228171597
"How original design was killed by The Mgt. and replaced by LSI-11
compatible one"
--
Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru