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Back in the late 80s when I was spending days hacking on USSR-made clones of Apple II in my school, lots of components (floppy drives and diskettes, monitors) w
by SergeAx 6y ago
Back in the late 80s when I was spending days hacking on USSR-made clones of Apple II in my school, lots of components (floppy drives and diskettes, monitors) was made in Bulgaria. I wonder what happened to then most technologically advanced country of Eastern Block?
- stjo 6y agoYou mean Pravetz or actual Apple replicas made to confuse buyers?
- SergeAx 6y agoI mean Agat, a 6502-based desktop computer developed in Novosibirsk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat_(computer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat_(computer) It was able to run some Apple II software after applying small patches to I/O and video subroutines.
- tenebrisalietum 6y agoIf you played around with the Agat you should write some blogs. Agat seems really interesting from what I've been able to learn about it - it was like a 32-column Apple II with SECAM color.
- SergeAx 6y agoYes, it was. Not in the mood for retroblogging yet, maybe 5-10 years later, thanks for the idea)
- rini17 6y agoCzechoslovakian experience: the indigenous high tech supply chain could not survive the combination of wild privatisation (new owners often just sold everything off and pocketed the proceeds instead of development) and need to pivot to products attractive to completely different markets than before (unresolved licensing of intellectual property did not help there).