21 Sep
2004
21 Sep
'04
9:42 p.m.
Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com> wrote:
Are you familiar with it? I never thought its very existence was known
anywhere outside the former USSR! I mean it wasn't secret or anything,
just something I can't imagine anyone else knowing about (USSR wasn't
exactly a computer exporter :-). Well, OK, there was some Eastern Bloc
computer technology that was significant enough to be at least known
in the West (Robotron for example), but I can't imagine something as
little as BK0010 being known anywhere in the West.
Its CPU chip, K1801VM1, was really cool though: it was a complete
single-chip implementation of an LSI-11 CPU with Q-bus on its pins.
DEC never had that.
MS
Soviet BK0010,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ----> COOL! :-) 
22 Sep
22 Sep
4:47 a.m.
>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sokolov
<msokolov(a)ivan.harhan.org> writes:
Michael> Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com> wrote:
> > Soviet BK0010, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ----> COOL!
:-)
Michael> Are you familiar with it? I never thought its very
Michael> existence was known anywhere outside the former USSR! I
Michael> mean it wasn't secret or anything, just something I can't
Michael> imagine anyone else knowing about (USSR wasn't exactly a
Michael> computer exporter :-). Well, OK, there was some Eastern
Michael> Bloc computer technology that was significant enough to be
Michael> at least known in the West (Robotron for example), but I
Michael> can't imagine something as little as BK0010 being known
Michael> anywhere in the West.
I have somewhere a copy of an marketing flyer from a company in
Vilnius (forgot the name) that was building VAX clones. It's mostly
in Lithuanian and Russian, with summaries in German and English.
I think I got that when that company sent some people to DEC to try to
get DEC to buy some of their stuff, or outsource work to them, or
something along those lines. DEC looked at them and decided that
doing business with the russian mafia was not a good plan...
paul
5:03 a.m.
That brought to mind the story of the Cyrillic message included on the CVax
chip:
Vax -- when you care enough to steal the very best
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
-- Tony
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>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sokolov
<msokolov(a)ivan.harhan.org> writes:
Michael> Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com> wrote:
> > Soviet BK0010, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ----> COOL!
:-)
Michael> Are you familiar with it? I never thought its very
Michael> existence was known anywhere outside the former USSR! I
Michael> mean it wasn't secret or anything, just something I can't
Michael> imagine anyone else knowing about (USSR wasn't exactly a
Michael> computer exporter :-). Well, OK, there was some Eastern
Michael> Bloc computer technology that was significant enough to be
Michael> at least known in the West (Robotron for example), but I
Michael> can't imagine something as little as BK0010 being known
Michael> anywhere in the West.
I have somewhere a copy of an marketing flyer from a company in
Vilnius (forgot the name) that was building VAX clones. It's mostly
in Lithuanian and Russian, with summaries in German and English.
I think I got that when that company sent some people to DEC to try to
get DEC to buy some of their stuff, or outsource work to them, or
something along those lines. DEC looked at them and decided that
doing business with the russian mafia was not a good plan...
paul
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