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This is the first I hear about the Robotron 1715 being developed in Russia. All other sources I can find say that it was developed and built in Eastern Germany
by more_original 11y ago
This is the first I hear about the Robotron 1715 being developed in Russia. All other sources I can find say that it was developed and built in Eastern Germany (Robotron was an Eastern German company that developed a number of computers in the 80s). Even the russian wikipedia say so. Wikipedia says that even the U880 processor, a Z80 clone, was produced in East Germany.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_1715 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_1715
http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=864&st=1 http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=864&s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U880 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U880
- mindsuck 11y agoThe article doesn't say it was developed in Russia, it says "The computer itself was developed at a research institute outside Moscow, and production was transferred to the German Democratic Republic"
- more_original 11y agoHow do you read "The computer itself was developed at a research institute outside Moscow" to mean anything other than that the computer was developed in Russia?
- detaro 11y agoYep, the U880 was made at the VEB Mikroelektronik „Karl Marx“ in Erfurt. After the reunification parts of the VEB were converted to a company that still runs a semiconductor fab there (X-Fab).