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"Beyond the Iron Curtain" technology companies are really interesting. My favourite is Pravetz, makers of wonderful, wonderful clones of the computers of the 8
by boffinAudio 2y ago
"Beyond the Iron Curtain" technology companies are really interesting. My favourite is Pravetz, makers of wonderful, wonderful clones of the computers of the 80's.
What it must have been like, to see all the Western kids getting tons of software and different computing platforms, and then .. a few years later .. see the clones of all the machines arriving locally.
Still on the lookout for my favourite Pravetz, the 8D (Oric/Atmos clone) .. if only to complete the collection. I doubt I'll use the Cyrillic modifications much.
- Gare 2y ago> "Beyond the Iron Curtain" technology companies Yugoslavia really wasn't beyond the Iron Curtain. After the Tito-Stalin split in 1948 it was "unaligned", still communist but sitting on two chairs. Lots of technology from the West was imported, even our sole nuclear power-plant was built by Westinghouse in the 80's. Sure, there was also lots of technology from the Eastern bloc (especially East Germany) and attempts to build things domestically. It was a weird mix.