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Re: computer museum

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From: a... Vadim G. Antonov
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 1990 14:01
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In article <82...@aerospace.AERO.ORG> srt@aero.UUCP (Scott "TCB" Turner) writes:
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>And not all the demos are mindless.
>
	Thank you, Scott! I'm surely not mindless. :-)

	Generally speaking the best place to seek for VERY old
	and VERY weird machines is Soviet Union. You should not
	trust me but I've hacked machines from relays and gas-filled
	tubes, transistors and (of course) all generations of ICs
	(I'm 25 years old). Now I'm hacking 486; but the PC right
	to me is a Soviet clone of DEC Professional 350 with a 5Mb
	hard disk (it REALLY works! I've ported Unix to it ;-)
	I've seen a ternary machine /with logical 0s, 1s and -1s!/
	(SETUN', this weird one mentioned by Knuth in "Art of Prog.")
	BTW, someday I'll choose a bit of time to tell you a whole
	lot of funny stories about Soviet machines and Soviet hackerdom.

	Hello from Moscow!

	Vadim Antonov
	DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
	(It is NOT a joke!)
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From: a...@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: computer museum
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.140103.5451@hq.demos.su>
Date: 10 Sep 90 14:01:03 GMT
References: <3711@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <2201@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> <1990Aug31.160547@bert.llnl.gov> <1990Sep2.022449.17018@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <82964@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
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