Cemetary of Soviet Computers
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Ben Bradley
Here are some computers you might not have seen before.
https://rusue.com/cemetery-of-soviet-computers/
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That would be fun to go plunder/salvage through, but man, imagine the cost of hauling some of that back to the states xD
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12 bit with ferromagnetic memory? What weird stuff. -- Regards, Bradford
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Andy Craig
20 years ago at an airshow, they had a P3 Orion sub hunter airplane on static display. I was oggling the computer and its magnetic core memory and the guy told me they still use it. I tended to not believe him but still wondered. Maybe it can handle EMP better than modern stuff?
On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 4:18 PM Bradford <bradford@...> wrote:
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Raj Wurttemberg
Ex-Navy guy here… Yep, that’s exactly it. The mated film memory (MFM) and ferrite core memory have less chance of being damaged by an EMP. The EMP might cause a reboot and a reload, but we could be back on-line in 10 to 15 minutes (mag tape).
Thanks, /Raj
From: main@ahcs.groups.io <main@ahcs.groups.io> On Behalf Of Andy Craig
Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 4:31 PM To: main@ahcs.groups.io Subject: Re: [ahcs] Cemetary of Soviet Computers
20 years ago at an airshow, they had a P3 Orion sub hunter airplane on static display. I was oggling the computer and its magnetic core memory and the guy told me they still use it. I tended to not believe him but still wondered. Maybe it can handle EMP better than modern stuff?
On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 4:18 PM Bradford <bradford@...> wrote:
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john_crane_59
Sounds like a reverse-engineered PDP-8
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