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kuchinster

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2025-03-25 18:21:29

kuchinster

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Soviet Computer Software and Applications in the 1980s (1989)

https://web.archive.org/web/20220816065042/https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1989-801-5-2-Judy.pdf

https://diasp.org/posts/21645525
#retrocomputing #Russia #russian #USSR #soviet #history

russian history

2025-03-26 00:56:06

Harka

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To be fair, the mass computer 'revolution' (as in widespread adoption) didn't happen in the West, either, until the late 80s and mainly the 1990s. Imagine just how much harder, more limited and far more expensive it was in the Eastern Bloc to even remotely dabble in such technology.

And it probably didn't help, that the Eastern governments weren't exactly interested in giving their people computers to begin with, given that they were even afraid of typewriters and copy machines.

2025-03-26 09:28:06

kuchinster

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@Harka

And it probably didn't help, that the Eastern governments weren't exactly interested in giving their people computers to begin with, given that they were even afraid of typewriters and copy machines.

This is a widespread misconception. Undoubtedly, there were those in the leadership who were afraid of everything new, but computer computing was widely developed. Here, for example, is a brochure about the device and the basics of working on a computer, which I found in a destroyed vocational school, where they trained only workers (not engineers) to work in factories and mills.

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