[commie] Soviet Design

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I spent some time poking around the Museum of Soviet Calculators

        http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/soviet.html

I was looking for any interesting examples of Soviet design,
and I did find some.

Here's the directory of all gizmos:

        http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/mycollection.html

Apparently they built calculators like they built spacecraft.

        http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/mechbystr.html
        This Soviet electro-mechanical calculator, the 
        Bystritsa-2, is  capable of multiplication and
         (clunk-ca-clunk-clunk-ca-clunk...) division. 
        Mechanically, its amazing they work at all.     
        Very 'cheap' metal stampings and plastic parts
        (gears, no less). The strange part is that after 
        all of these years, most of these calculators 
        still work flawlessly today! That's a testimony 
        to the design, which must have a lot of built-in
        tolerance for manufacturing and 'environmental' 
        variation. 

this one looks like an old Kaypro "luggable"
http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/vega.html

cool peripherals!
http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/edvm.html

scientific measurement peropheral
http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/mk-61.html 

scary-looking mechanical calculators
http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/felix.html
http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/vk1.html
http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/vk2.html
 

nifty designs

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/mk-77.html (TRES stylish !)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/4-71b.html

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/iskra210.html (60's-ish)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/iskra1122.html (bizarre display)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/b3-08.html (Soviet minimalist ?)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/b3-18m.html (almost Japanese ?)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/c3-27.html (Airstream)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/mk-93.html (looks very friendly)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/mk-11.html (back to the future)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/mk-46.html (no-nonsense)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/mk-52.html (sleek !)

http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/mk-53.html (had to describe)


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