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From: mbkennel@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Matthew B. Kennel)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR Microcomputers: How far behind US?
Message-ID: <8013@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 29 Apr 89 05:23:31 GMT
References: <1805@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Reply-To: mbkennel@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Matthew B. Kennel)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <1805@orion.cf.uci.edu> dlawyer@balboa.eng.uci.edu (David Lawyer) writes:
>
>One might expect that the USSR would standardize on one or two families
>of MC's but this is not the case.  The families include: Agat,
>Elektronika-60, DVK, Elektonika-K1, EC-1840, CM-1800, Neyron, and
>Iskra.

I was visiting the Space Research Institute in Moscow a little over
a year ago.  At least there, they have standardized on one kind
of computer: IBM clones.  I asked to see a Russian computer, and
they laughed, saying something like "We don't use those; we have
real work to get done around here!"

Most of the compters there were PC-XT and a few AT compatibles.
Roald Sagdeev had a laser printer, even.  

Matt Kennel
mbkennel@phoenix.princeton.edu