28 Oct
2005
28 Oct
'05
7:10 a.m.
> Did the Soviets clone the Vax? I know they cloned
11's but what
> about other computers? Was DEC the only computer brand worth
> cloning?
I have a copy of a flyer from STIMTI of Vilnius (Lithuania -- then
part of the Soviet empire). It starts in 1958. I can't read enough
Lithuanian (or Russian, the other language in the document) to figure
out the details, but it looks like they did some punch card processing
equipment early on. If that's a clone of something it would
presumably be IBM stuff. Later on they did DEC clones too, I believe
-- the document describes a 32 bit machine called the SM-1700.
paul