soviet digital electronics museum

[merzbau]

http://www.leningrad.su/museum/

is this site as relevant to your interests as it is mine?
there's something agreeably gibson-esque about these exhibits...
is it the harsh, utilitarian design? the dirty keypads with worn cyrillic characters?

here was an era when computers looked menacing and ugly, like circuit boards roughly embedded in metal.
they belong in a missile silo or a crumbling tank factory.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Mmmm, so ugly it's beautiful.

This is why I love the Hind so much.

Now if Russia builds a 12ft tall mech/exosuit, I'd fall in love with it.

 

[merzbau]

yeah! gimme a hind over a blackhawk any day..!

while we're at it, meet the most successful soviet tank design of ww2, the T-34:

 

[Madoness]

[BIMG]http://uppix.net/8/9/b/e8e8a02c6f3ce2ad33a7f1f1058d1.jpg[/BIMG]
[BIMG]http://muuseum.at.mt.ut.ee/images/juku-1.jpg[/BIMG]
The first computer I ever used. If i remember correctly, it had like only two colors, black and green. Though it was soon replaced with western ones.

 

[Anthile]

Now if Russia builds a 12ft tall mech/exosuit, I'd fall in love with it.

In Russia, mechs build YOU!

 

[merzbau]

that's awesome.. looks like an 8080 clone.
my first comp was a commodore vic-20, equipped with cassette tape drive, and a throbbing 5k of RAM.