East German retro computing

JohnnyBoy · Post by **JohnnyBoy** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:39 pm

Next time you visit a Communist system, imagine the poor inhabitants trying to calculate their 5-year tractor production plans on something like this: a 1984-vintage Robotron 1715....

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/2 ... he-cc.html

Cmdr Wyvern · Post by **Cmdr Wyvern** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:37 pm

In the Oolite timeline, I'd think the poor Commie farmers would be at least up to a 3rd generation Amiga...or worse, a Commie copycat of a 486 machine running a copycat of pirated Windows 95.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:30 pm

I was at the Science Museum in London last year when they had their history of home computing/arcade machine exhibition on. They had an East german arcade machine from c. 1992 - large wooden case - poor quality standard TV screen, early 1980s graphics.

hircus · Post by **hircus** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:43 am

Reminds me of Kieślowski's Dekalog -- the first episode in particular. The computer-scientist dad created a computer program that can "answer any question, given the necessary parameters". He and his son used it to determine that the ice in the lake is thick enough to ice-skate...