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on Wednesday April 15 2015, @12:12PM
from the if-you-build-it-they-will-come dept.
from the if-you-build-it-they-will-come dept.
Hackaday has an article on computer peripherals from former Soviet Union countries used in 80's era home computing.
... the lack of spare parts, literature and technology in Czechoslovakia forced geeks to solve it themselves: by improvisation and what we would today call “hacking.” Hobbyist projects of one person or a small party was eventually taken over by a state-owned enterprise, which then began to manufacture and deliver to stores with some minor modifications. These projects most often involved a variety of peripherals that could only be found in the Czechoslovakia with great difficulty.
This is a followup piece to an earlier article on home computers, originally discussed in a previous SN article.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Geotti on Wednesday April 15 2015, @03:34PM
In Soviet Russia country unions you...
No, seriously, it should read something like:
Hackaday has an article on computer peripherals from former Eastern Bloc countries used in 80's era home computing.