[HN Gopher] Soviet computer has been forgotten for 30 years [video] ___________________________________________________________________ Soviet computer has been forgotten for 30 years [video] Author : admp Score : 64 points Date : 2023-09-29 20:44 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com) | 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! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-29 23:00 UTC)