Re:Soviet PCs
by interfixus on Friday October 16, 2015 @06:58PM
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You are aware that Sweden was not a member of the "Eastern Block"?
That was exactly my point. Most likely every country (overall) had their own computer. It wasn't an "Eastern block thing". The degree of separation was obviously higher, but not all "western" manufacturers were American.
(Also: danskjävel...)
Re:Soviet PCs
by interfixus on Saturday October 17, 2015 @12:44AM
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I get it now. The context was ambiguous, though, so I don't quite get the downvote.
Yes, we danskjävels made som as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnecentralen
> I get it now. The context was ambiguous, though, so I don't quite get the downvote.
I can't even downvote, so it wasn't me. I edited my original post to be less ambiguous. Sorry.
> Yes, we danskjävels made som as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnecentralen
There's something really beautiful about that setup. I like the splash of color in select areas and the keyboard looks amazing.
There's this beauty from Sweden:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC80
I'm guessing a lot of countries overall had their own computers, not just eastern block. We don't usually hear much about them because we base our computer history mostly on the canon of the US.
I was surprised to read in "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" that my former university's computer science department made a very prominent sendmail version back in the day (IDA sendmail) and that this was noteworthy in that context.
This field has been international for a very long time.