Luci Bitchface AngerfootLinks about russian computers from the earlly GUI era, courtesy this thread (most from @nina_kali_nina ) :
https://furry.engineer/@patcharcana/116194382032516507
https://www.robotrontechnik.de/
>>> is a charmingly retro website about computing in the GDR, unfortunately mostly in German. The link section, it has some links to sites about soviet computing
home computers and micros, e.g. DVK
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81
>>> a good Wiki article on school computers from the 80s, too: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8
Many are Western clones, but not all of them.
>>> here are some screenshots of soft for one Soviet PDP-11-on-a-chip home computer:
https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/113676143680346758
>>> a windowed operating shell for PC-compatibles from 1986:
https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/111670752278950938
>>> here's an overview of SM models - https://www.computer-museum.ru/articles/sm-evm/1026/
It barely talks about the software, though. It mentions that they often ran RAFOS (RT11 clone) and DEMOS (UNIX)
Patch Arcana (@[email protected])
I should know enough trans people, autists, and retrocomp geeks to get useful information out of this question. Tragically, with the current state of web search, this is less a matter of "lazy google" and more of an example of "We have unjustly slain the librarian." Does anyone have any good resources on computing in the soviet union in the 70s and 80s that *isn't* just Skala? I'm getting way too obsessive about a writing problem. I am especially interested in anything where a user interface becomes relevant: ICS workstations, desktop computers, the whole bit.
Nina Kalinina
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