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Re:Soviet PCs by togusa on Friday October 16, 2015 @06:33PM (#10402445)
They also had full VAX 11/780 clones! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_K_1840

Oh and wonderful art ( http://imgur.com/GPPI56E ) but that's another topic.

Re:Soviet PCs by krylon on Friday October 16, 2015 @06:58PM (#10402533)
I still think Robotron is about the coolest name of any computer manufacturer EVER. Imagine how cool it would be to own a laptop or smartphone or whatever with that name on it.
Re:Soviet PCs by detaro on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:35PM (#10403036)
Since there were jokes further up, this reminded me of another one:

A delegation of Japanese visits the GDR and of course is shown many important companies and places. At the end, they are asked "What did you enjoy the most?"

"The three great museums: Pergamon, Pentacon and Robotron"

Re:Soviet PCs by krylon on Saturday October 17, 2015 @03:37AM (#10403704)
Hehe, that is a good one!

Earlier this year, I visited the Heinz-Nixdorf museum, not far from where I live, which actually has a mainframe built by Robotron on display (a clone of an IBM S/370, I think).

Re:Soviet PCs by DanBC on Friday October 16, 2015 @07:09PM (#10402571)
TIMTronic - (ticket issuing machine, electronic) is my favourite name for any bit of hardware.

I used to fix them. Real keyswitches, 7 segment displays, ink ribbons. Really retro now.