[HN Gopher] Mighty MK-52: The Spaceworthy Soviet-era Calculator
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       Mighty MK-52: The Spaceworthy Soviet-era Calculator
        
       Author : jrepinc
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2021-07-17 11:23 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (electronicsdeli.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (electronicsdeli.net)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Url changed from https://hackaday.com/2021/07/17/soviet-
       | scientific-calculator..., which points to this.
        
       | naoru wrote:
       | 115 soviet rubles weren't equivalent to 2021 $5, that's a gross
       | miscalculation. it's more like $450. some sources claim that
       | soviet ruble is equivalent to around 220-240 2018 Russian rubles,
       | and in 2021 rubles it's even more.
        
         | retrac wrote:
         | Hard to compare exchange rates like that, especially for the
         | Soviet ruble. One way to look at it is buying power
         | equivalence. I found some sources for the 1980s in the USSR
         | that give typical household incomes in the range of about 75 -
         | 300 rubles per month. That gives some sense for the cost for
         | the average person. Around a month's wages, give or take. Of
         | course, prices can be misleading in a command economy. One
         | might simply not have been able to buy it at the official
         | price, and either waited and waited, or went black/grey market.
         | Source: http://www.roiw.org/1993/23.pdf "INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN
         | THE U.S.S.R. IN THE 1980S"
        
       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | Looks to be sharing design elements of the HP-15C.
        
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