GREAT thread! It is certainly bringing back the memories. I used to play with LOGO for hours on Apple II back in the computer lab days (mid-late 80s). My first computer was an Atari XE, probably around 1987, then I got an Apple IIGS in 1989. First PC was in 1992, and I quickly learned how to build them. I haven't been "into" PC hardware for about five months and already I'm completely lost with the new stuff. It just changes so fast. All my old PC buddies make fun of me because now the only computer I use is my Apple iBook G4.

But it is really, really neat to learn that the Soviet Union produced home computers, as Western propaganda would have us believing you still had computers the size of a Ural truck in the 1980s! It reminds of the Soviet joke, "Our watches are the fastest, our computers the biggest!"

Anyhow, really cool thread, guys. Just over three weeks until I arrive in Moscow!