The revolution has come! Our glorious people's republic has taken the crass bourgeois computers of our capitalist pig oppressors (stop typing, hamei, I know what you're going to type) and brought them to the proletariat! No longer denying the working class the means of computing production, we have put the PDP-11 in the palm of your hand!
This is a real, incredible Soviet ripoff of my favourite Casio pocket computer, the PB-700 (its sibling, the very similar PB-100, was sold by Tandy Radio Shack as the Tandy Pocket Computer PC-4 ). It smelled like rotted Marlboro-ffs opening the package, but it works perfectly. The most wacky thing is that despite emulating the Casio fairly precisely, the Elektronika MK-85 is a 16-bit architecture based on the PDP-11 rather than the 4-bit architecture the Casio original used, which they expanded to add dot addressible graphics and custom characters. You can even exploit a bug in its BASIC to run machine language programs .
The feel of the unit is about what you would expect for the CCCP of 1992. It's not great quality, but then neither was the Casio. It has an odd textured finish which is a little off-putting, and the LCD is a bit iffy though that may just be its age.
Unfortunately, it has less RAM than my PC-4 had (about 1.1K, whereas the PC-4 has a whopping 1568 bytes free with the RAM pack) and despite the heavier weight architecture, is a bit slower. It also completely lacks an expansion port, but it does have a port for an A/C adaptor (!).
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- Tovarich! The revolution has 12 characters!
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- NEKKID
This is a real, incredible Soviet ripoff of my favourite Casio pocket computer, the PB-700 (its sibling, the very similar PB-100, was sold by Tandy Radio Shack as the Tandy Pocket Computer PC-4 ). It smelled like rotted Marlboro-ffs opening the package, but it works perfectly. The most wacky thing is that despite emulating the Casio fairly precisely, the Elektronika MK-85 is a 16-bit architecture based on the PDP-11 rather than the 4-bit architecture the Casio original used, which they expanded to add dot addressible graphics and custom characters. You can even exploit a bug in its BASIC to run machine language programs .
The feel of the unit is about what you would expect for the CCCP of 1992. It's not great quality, but then neither was the Casio. It has an odd textured finish which is a little off-putting, and the LCD is a bit iffy though that may just be its age.
Unfortunately, it has less RAM than my PC-4 had (about 1.1K, whereas the PC-4 has a whopping 1568 bytes free with the RAM pack) and despite the heavier weight architecture, is a bit slower. It also completely lacks an expansion port, but it does have a port for an A/C adaptor (!).
smit happens.
bigred
, 800MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12, 6.5.30
indy
, 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
purplehaze
, R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from
bruce
, Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
bigred
, 800MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12, 6.5.30
indy
, 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
purplehaze
, R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from
bruce
, Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
