G'day, This publication may be of interest to those willing to collect Soviet computers (I never saw it, just found a reference to it in <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. Another possible source of information: Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History, National Bureau of Standards collection: <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. More: <URL:http://neptune.fedworld.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?waisdocid=1316428519+25+0+0&waisaction=retrieve> Chip in the Curtain - Computer Technology in the Soviet Union (1989) <URL:http://neptune.fedworld.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?waisdocid=1316428519+24+0+0&waisaction=retrieve> Parallel Processing Research in the Former Soviet Union. (1992) <URL:http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/FRAME/books-fr.htm> "History Computer Science Books" (images of early Soviet computers are linked from this page) <URL:http://www.alink.net/~avg/tetris.c> A remake of Tetris, with look-n-feel of original version. <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" (I know of an ES-1010 that to this day runs MISS.) <URL:http://kulichki.rambler.ru/moshkow/unixhelp/> Some user documentation on Besta-88. Reportedly, Linux <URL:http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=329737050> and NetBSD were ported to this machine. <URL:http://www.vpti.vladimir.ru/rus/archives/humor/es.html> A piece of folklore about ES-10xx series of machines. These are "almost, but not quite, entirely different" :-) clones of IBM 360 series, except ES-1010, which is a clone of Mitra 225, and emulates IBM 360 instruction set in software (if need arises). <URL:nntp://fido7.mo.dec> <URL:nntp://fido7.ru.bigblue> <URL:nntp://fido7.su.mainframe> <URL:nntp://fido7.zx.spectrum> <URL:nntp://fido7.real.speccy> <URL:nntp://fido7.ru.amiga> These are FidoNet echomail conferences, bidirectionally gatewayed to Usenet. See <URL:http://www.fido7.ru/> for details. -- Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru