[HN Gopher] Soviet computer has been forgotten for 30 years [video]
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Soviet computer has been forgotten for 30 years [video]
Author : admp
Score : 64 points
Date : 2023-09-29 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| robotnikman wrote:
| Slightly related, the soviets operated mechanical computers which
| used water instead of gears and levers to compute things.
| Apparently they were used well into the 80's
|
| https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/12/vladimir-lukyanovs-wat...
| eps wrote:
| Tangentialy related -
|
| Legend has it that there was once a water-cooled Soviet
| mainframe model. At some point one of the machines was
| overheating and it was tracked down to the algae growth in
| coolant tubes. So the joke was that this made Soviets the
| pioneers of bionic computing.
| flir wrote:
| https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/how-doe...
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
| lxe wrote:
| Growing up in Belarus in the 90s, the ES-1841 was my first
| computer. I accidentally formatted a games diskette on it for the
| first time, after accidentally fumbling something in Norton
| Commander. I think I was around 6.
|
| I was one of the few kids in my elementary school with a computer
| and a printer, so I was able to score some clout with the
| classmates, until a few of the richer kids starter to have access
| to more modern computers.
|
| We had 256 KB of RAM until my dad upgraded it to 512. I learned
| to program using QuickBasic on it when I was around 8, I think.
|
| I have many memories of this machine, and I would be so thrilled
| if I could gain access to it in the US somehow.
| lxe wrote:
| Some of the games I remember playing were:
|
| - Chessmaster 2000
|
| - nz.exe which took me decades to find to be "Saboteur 2",
|
| - digger, a game similar to digdug, as you can see in the video
|
| - moon patrol
|
| - kicks.exe -- I still can't find what the actual title was. It
| was a game where balls bounce around an area and your job is to
| slice sections of the area closing off the balls, once you
| capture the balls in a small enough area, you move to the next
| level.
| akersten wrote:
| > - kicks.exe -- I still can't find what the actual title
| was. It was a game where balls bounce around an area and your
| job is to slice sections of the area closing off the balls,
| once you capture the balls in a small enough area, you move
| to the next level.
|
| JezzBall - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/jezzball-fkh
| lxe wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah it was something similar to it, except
| probably from the 80s and for IBM DOS.
| bennysaurus wrote:
| Given the name, it'll be Qix, I had a copy as well!
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix
| SupremumLimit wrote:
| Thanks! I used to play it as a kid and have been trying
| to remember the name of the game for years.
| mbreese wrote:
| As soon as I read the description, that was my guess too.
| It was such a simple game and I spent a lot of time
| playing it.
|
| If you wanted to be patient, it was almost impossible to
| lose. But if you hurried, it was anlmost impossible to
| win.
| lxe wrote:
| Bingo. This is it. One of the variants for sure! Thank
| you so much!
| ivan4th wrote:
| I grew up in Russia, and ES-1841 was my first computer, too.
| Also with a printer, yet no HD. That was 1990 and I was 10
| y.o... Once printed a caricature of one of school bullies using
| (a Soviet clone of) Turbo Pascal and its turtle graphics
| facility, resulting in a fight. My favorite pastime was writing
| DOS viruses in asm, though... I didn't spread them, just wrote
| some for fun. Found some of my virus code written down a couple
| of years ago
| https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-jP39nXEAAve0O?format=jpg&name=...
| Obscurity4340 wrote:
| In Soviet Russia, computer never forget YOU!
| maximinus_thrax wrote:
| Slightly related but a fascinating read if you're interested in
| vintage Soviet computing stuff:
| https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27310479
| cptnapalm wrote:
| I need to find the two reports I got from the US Government
| about the Ural computers.
| qaq wrote:
| Kibernetika (Cybernetics) was considered a pseudoscience in USSR
| for a long time. That set USSR back so much that it would never
| catch up. I think thats an important lesson to remember re:
| politicians influencing scientific research to match their
| narrative.
| hn8305823 wrote:
| This is amazing. The card cage/connectors on the back looks like
| something from another planet. Are those some kind of Molex clone
| connectors and each one requires an adapter dongle/cable to
| interface to standard connectors?
| tigen wrote:
| The video is talking about a Soviet ES-1841 computer from the
| Chernobyl zone.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_PEVM
| varjag wrote:
| The video is indeed talking about ES-1841, one of the most
| common Soviet PC clones released a couple years after the
| catastrophe. The channel tends to really stretch its exhibits
| connection to Chornobyl.
| sergiotapia wrote:
| This would make a great piece of a videogame. There's an
| extraterrestrial enemy that's completely impenetrable to our
| weapons and systems. They based all their defenses around our
| devices and current tech.
|
| One day we discover this old russian tech that was a fork-in-road
| tech-wise 70 years ago and is ultimately the key to beating the
| enemy!
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