I went to an exhibition of old Soviet computers and what I saw there

in #photography7 years ago (edited)

Old computers, such as Apple II, C64 and so on are well known to everyone. But last fall, I visited a small amateur fest of old computers (and computer art), where Soviet computers were shown. I took some pictures and hope you see something unusual.


At the entrance I saw the computer Commodore VIC-20, produced in 1980. It was connected to the monitor with an insane brightness - I can not imagine how it was possible to work with it:

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Note the funny cassette player, which is the data/program storage. In order to show the image on the screen, I had to take the camera and reduce the exposure manually:

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Brutal Soviet mouse:

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... and joystick:

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The POSITRON computer is for schools. The label on the front reads: "The work rate per student for 30 minutes a day."

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Electronika МС0585 from Voronezh, produced in 1985:

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And this is the legendary Poisk (translated as "Search") from Kiev (the capital of Ukraine today):

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The upgrade is made by modules that are simply inserted as cartridges for consoles. This is RAM 256 kb module:

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The first Soviet game console for TV (Pong clone):

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"Yamaha КУВТ2" – a special series of MSX computers produced by Yamaha for Soviet Union:

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That's all I had time to take a picture before the start of the tournament on the NES TMNT Fighting, which I actually came. I was second. The first is this girl:

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Congrats on second place, congrats to the winner. That first monitor on the VIC-20 looks like it could cause legitimate eye cancer. lol

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... btw, nice collection. I remember PONG, my friend had one, brough by his father from West Germany ;-)
Then we had a huge war between Atari 65XE and Commodore C64 owners. And of course Sinclair/ZX Spectrum. And games loaded from the casette tapes (nobody moves or it fails to load!)
Joysticks broken during River Raid...

I'm old :D

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