Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
P.S. The photos of vintage computers reminded me of this classic one-liner:

Наши советские микрокомпьютеры самые большие в мире, и советские часы - самые быстрые!
Our Soviet microcomputers are the largest in the world, and Soviet watches are the fastest!

[A "boast" that has been apocryphally attributed to Brezhnev and others, though I don't think there's any evidence of any Soviet leader ever saying it! ]
Well I cannot compare Ural or BESM to the foreign analogs, but given they were exported worldwide, they were not that bad. The ЕС ЭВМ was a copy of an IBM-produced prototype so it was not larger nor smaller than IBM-produced analogs.

You can also consider a Soviet "pocket-pc" Elektronika MK-90/92/96.




It had a 16-bit processor, graphical display and embeeded BASIC interpreter.

You could also attach it to a dock station and connect to an external display and printer.


Of course this thing was much more expensive than the БК-0010 which had a similar processor and amount of memory.