[HN Gopher] Mighty MK-52: The Spaceworthy Soviet-era Calculator ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-17 23:01 UTC)