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Re:Interesting look at the history of Soviet personal computers by bigmonads on Monday October 01, 2018 @10:30PM (#18118401)
This reflects the American adoption of personal computers pretty well. Most High Schools did not have personal computers until well into the 90s, but some had them in the late 80s. Similarly, universities in the early 90s did not have availability of personal computers to the degree math professors were all able to do calculations on them (to say nothing of the state of mathematical software at that point).

A number of personal computers in the Soviet Union were created, such as the MIR series were developed in the early 70s and late 90s, but commodity hardware didn't really kick in until the early 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIR_(computer)

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Re:Interesting look at the history of Soviet personal computers by realandreskytt on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:22AM (#18118779)
Commodity hardware in the sense of “it is made but impossible to get hold of outside the place its made or Leningrad or Moscow and half what you get is wildly out if spec” as Soviet reality tended to be. Only aluminum plates were really a commodity where I grew up in the 80s.
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Re:Interesting look at the history of Soviet personal computers by bigmonads on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:16PM (#18123000)
I would recommend this article about impressions and facts to you: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont...

It's super good, carefully studied, and overall a well written read.

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