[geeks] Re: geeks digest, Vol 1 #1394 - 22 msgs

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:06:03AM +0200, roosmcd at dds.nl wrote:
>  http://www.beckeru.de/infos/ddr/informatik/kc85/alles/alles_02.html
> 
>  Yes, old-fashioned communist computing power :). Did/do they make any 'decent' 
> workstations in the East Block? I've only heard that they copied some PDP or 
> VAX stuff and these 'toys'.

It was mostly knock-offs of western designs.  There were a few interesting
machines designed and made in Bulgaria though, IIRC.  They were responsible
for most of the computers used in the Soviet space program, for example.

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