THIS SOVIET COMPUTER has been FORGOTTEN FOR 30 YEARS!
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
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For the background of ES1841 computers in post-disaster Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, watch the first episode: • Extreme Restoration of...
About specialized expansion cards: • Soviet scientific comp...
Your requests (trying the CP/M, Error 2000, playing Tetris and so): • Playing ORIGINAL TETRI...
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ES-1841 is a Soviet i8086 clone-based IBM PC/XT-compatible computer. The same were used in the Chornobyl Zone in post-disaster works e.g. by SP Spetsatom based at Jupiter factory in Pripyat (see the Ep.1 for details).
This particular machine is NOT from the Zone but fully identical to those remaining in Chornobyl, and has been assembled from 3 different sets found all across Ukraine. In this episode, we will start a restored computer in full configuration for the first time in nearly 3 decades! We will review and try some historic programs and, for sure, will play the legendary Digger!
Contents of this video:
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Getting software was a challenge
1:20 - Don't forget - there is much more in the full version
1:30 - Launch set-up configuration review
3:10 - A pretty special keyboard
3:58 - How we discovered corrosion of gold
4:30 - POWER ON! And BIOS memory test
5:15 - Booting and trying the Alpha-DOS operation system
7:10 - About the standard software suite
7:30 - DELOGRAF business graphic app from ±1987
13:00 - Info-Gamma dosimetry program from Chernobyl '88
18:00 - Printing a dosimetry report on a matrix printer
18:38 - Building radiation charts
19:07 - CommanDOS file manager
21:46 - Trying MS-DOS 3.30 and Volkov Commander
22:37 - A calculator from the USSR Ministry of Energy
23:21 - Playing DIGGER!
27:15 - M86 and CP/M operation systems
28:33 - Outro - Наука та технологія
Please, let us know in the comments what you think about this video, and what would you like to see in our future episodes. Maybe, playing some classic games or running an app you used in the past? Let us know!
maybe try fixing the chip by soldering wires(or using conductive liquid solder paint to make the connection to not heat it up, not as strong but if it were on a rigid pcb for mounting it should have a chance of working) from it's legs to a socket you then insert into the socket, if the corrosion doesn't go inside the chip.
@@lasskinn474 thanks for the advice, but the sad thing - i did it, and then noticed, that itself the chip is even more damaged than it looked at the first glance :(
@@ChernobylFamily in that case please just try some more games to run on it and some benchmark program. Also if you have a pinout for the bus if it could be possible to use some sd card hd emulator gizmo somehow for the cpm clone
@@lasskinn474 good idea! Thank you!
@@lasskinn474 mm... maybe can you suggest such a benchmark program for 8086? BTW, also likely tomorrow will post on Patreon a ~10 min re iew if the test instruments. Contrary to built-in in 1849, these were made as a bootable disk.
Holy cow, this is going to be a hit in the retro PC community. I can't wait to see more.
Thank you so much! Well, we just have started..)
Yep.
Subbed.
Thank you :)
already emulated on MAME ^^
I can't wait for the MiSTer core to drop.
This is amazing. A piece of history that would have been lost forever, without your intervention. Thanks for this!!!
Thank you so much for such words!
Да, видеть в работе железо 35-40 летней давности - весьма интересно.
Yes. I remember my first reaction when I saw memory test on the screen. It was like... a voice from a far, forgotten past.
It was rather nice for my wife and I to see that these system files were created on the first of November 1989 - that's the day we were married. Now we're two elderly computer geeks and really enjoying this series. Thank you so much!
Happy to hear that!
Wow
“Elderly” as in..? 50s 60s?
@@SonOfAdolfthere’s a game from this time period that you should check out, it’s called Wolfenstein 3D. It’s very educational about the correct way to socially interact with people who follow Nazi ideology, especially if you pick up the chaingun 😃
I'm not sure I can complement you any further -- you're doing a fantastic job with your restoration work, presentation work, and video production. This is such a fascinating area for people on the other side of the Cold War who grew up at the same time.
We just love our stuff..) Thank you very much once again for such words.
@@ChernobylFamily Soviet technology is hard to come across these days now but if I never saw this channel it would be a different story
And this is just a beginning!
@@ChernobylFamily So there's a ton more to go?
@@projects6371 In the scope of the zone: DVK, CM-1420, CM-1801, SKALA, ES-1033 and, the most interesting, computers of Duga which we study already kinda 5 years.
How could it be possible that Chernobyl incident was in 1986 but files shown during the OS loading are dated on 1989?
It is super easy. Disaster stopped normal life in the Zone but started an entire field of works to keep the area safe. Therefore dozens of organizations, enterprises and labs were created in Chornobyl town, Pripyat city, etc., and many are operating up to the present day (google "Chornobyl Special Enterprise" for modern examples). As for this computer, here ua-cam.com/video/GH2U-xOOlOk/v-deo.html we explain the background of their use in the Zone.
Wrong! All wrong, let’s not get our history lessons on a text feed on UA-cam! We are better than this people
This is perhaps one of the most underrated videos on UA-cam. You guys have incredible content, I don't know how you don't have more subscribers.
Well, we started not that long ago..) today in the (our time) evening will be a cool video...)
Loved the "Drug Deal" purchase of software! Great content! Made me smile.
Well, that guy looked suspiciously familiar....
I absolutely love these videos. As someone with an interest both in old computers and USSR I find them fascinating. Thank you for bringing us these videos - especially at the moment.
Thank you! And more to come in the nearest time.
I used to play Digger on my first 8086 computer for hours when I was a kid. This brought back so many memories. Your videos are amazing and deserve millions of views. What you do will be gold for generations to come!
Thank you for such motivating words!
This is amazing! I'll send your videos to my dad. He's a programmer but grew up in Soviet Poland.
Please send also greetings!
Awesome work, guys!
Thank you!
I just love the Volkov Commander! Priceless! Someone was probably set to make a identical application as Norton Commander, in the old Soviet. Amazing.
That was the point, Vsevolod Volkov did not want to steal, he wanted to make it better, eventually, 64 kb and two files is something. There is one more rework of NC, called FAR (File And Archive manager), which if we remember correctly is windows app, but looks like NC.
@@ChernobylFamily Thank you for the reply, and the clarification! 😀
Volkov Commander was circulating around the local BBSes in Finland in the early 1990s. I already had Norton Commander at the time, but Volkov ran so much faster on my 8086 that I switched to it. There had been rumors circulating about ex-Soviet programmers being superior to Westerners because of the need to compensate for the slower hardware, and Volkov Commander kind of proved this rumor to be true.
Amazing story!
I loved Digger when I was a kid! So neat to learn that people on the other side of the world were also playing it! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your memories! Well, we even have been playing Star Trek on IBM/370 mainframe clones (but a funny detail that behind the Iron Curtain a few knew what the Star Trek world was)
Old western XT keyboards also had just 10 Function keys, AT keyboards started with the 12 keys. Some XT were based on the cheaper 8088 not 8086.
Thank you forthe clarification!
Loved the sarcasm on the "gold" pins... Also love machines like these nowadays... Keep it up!!
Yeah... you should see my face when i pulled that out... thank you, we will!
The HDD controller chip can be repaired.
Just solder wires to what remains of the leads and mount it on a dip header.
The ceramic package is hermetically sealed so everything should be ok inside.
Takes me back to the 90s when I used a Soviet computer for producing a monthly English language business bulletin in St. Petersburg. A big noisy machine and printer, but it got the job done.
Yes, totally understandable feeling :)
@@ChernobylFamily я хотел бы вспомнить, какой компьютер я тогда же использовал....
How about Pentium in early 90-ies, were they not noisy?Maybe some of the Soviet pc's were brought to US in the late 80-ies, and rebranded as " US technology"? :)
Objectively, fans used in this very machine are industrial 220V with a very high power as for so tiny PSU. They are really notably noisier than common 12V ones.
My first machine used for similar purposes (mainly DTP, graphics, spreadsheets, and word processing for a western nonprofit) in the mid-nineties was a 486dx50, with a whopping 330mb scsci HDD, coupled with a wonderful -ozone maker- HP LJ IV iirc. Those were the days... Went to the US for a year a couple of years later on a school exchange program, where I saw such wonders as the internet, iomega zip drives, cameras that take pictures on a floppy disk, next pizza box computer, macs in the school lab.
Fantastic stuff. You did an amazing job filming the CRT, except you had some funny reflections of the past. Very funny how that happened. But seriously, keep up the amazing work!
Well, with CRT here we finally could use different - better - equipment... still much to learn, never did this kind of records in the past! Thank you for your words!
This is incredible. Huge congratulations on a wonderful episode in a fantastic series. Thank you.
Thank you! Here will be much more :)
I love this!!! I followed instantly and I'm very excited to see what kind of videos you're going to make in future and the development of this channel! I'm from Latvia and I love old tech and was interested in Cherobyl disaster since childhood. Thank you for this great video! ❤️
Thank you for such warm words! More to come!
24:55 - Что правда, то правда! Возврат в детство))
Восстановили, красиво всё отняли! Молодцы!
Дякуємо!
You should document the hardware as much as possible and publish everything, it would be useful to create an emulator of this machine
There is a package for MAME emulator AFAIK. Neverheless, we are translating documentation we have and will for beginning put it in Patreon. We also are contacting various institutions whether still have schematics. We'd love to rebuild this on a modern component base in the future with all extensions, as we still have .0100 controller we cannot run (check the ep 2)
Классное произношение 👍 и как приятно услышать знакомый звук загрузки с дискет.
Дякуємо!
Good work. Keep it up. 👍
Thank you so much! We surely will.
Your videos are fantastic and very fascinating. I really enjoy these old Soviet computing videos !
Glad you like them!
Very interesting! Soviet computer tech of this era is fascinating for us geeks because it's all new to us. Mostly clones of western machines of course but undeniably interesting.
Thank you!
Subscriber number 845 here: Glad that YT suggested your channel!. Please, keep the good work!
God bless the algorithm! Welcome! We have here a lot of stuff, occasionally offer free drinks, and we love Chernobyl zone. Hope, you will like this!
The "Popcorn" theme music in the game reminds me of "Nu, Pogodi!"
...))
Thanks for sharing, good memories. This was the first computer, I saw at school in the 90s :) As I remember, it was running standard MS-DOS and Norton Commander as a shell. And yes, at the beginning of the 90s much more powerful computers like 80286/80386 were already available, but schools did not have a budget for that, a difference in life quality between East and West.
Thank you! It is a lovely machine, gives feelings..)
Impressive! I was under the impression that a lot of the systems from that era were based on the PDP-11 architecture, but I guess the absolute best and newest possible stuff would have been brought into use in key industries like that.
Thank you! By the way, in the scope of Chornobyl and the NPP in particular most of computers were PDP-11-compatible. We started with ES, as this is an architecture we know more. But, there will be PDP machines in the series as well, and a lot. Stay tuned!
@@ChernobylFamily Ohhhh, I am looking forward to this. You are doing amazing work.
@11:58 it's the apparatchiks!! 😆🤣😂😂 👏👏👏👏👏
Well, that word normally was used not for the highest officials, but technically you are correct :))
Looking at the expansion cards at the back there reminds me of a Tandy 2000, which was a non-ISA compatible 80186-based PC.
Hi, I've just discovered your channel, and already love it! As an Eastern Block kid, I feel pretty nostalgic about old Soviet tech. Please stay safe in Ukraine!
Thank you! Check our another series and stay tuned - this weekend will come more :)
What is an "Eastern Block kid"? Did you play Dendy?
@@juandager5220 Dendy is Russian, eastern bloc is not only Russia.
@@Ajrocket Yes, I am aware that Russia was part of the Eastern Block. It was a friendly question. The ZX Spectrum was popular in the UK. Sega had control of Brazil and parts of South America. Nintendo had an edge in the USA for some time. Then Sony took over Japan in the mid 90s and the rest is history.
So where was "Soviet tech" made? Where could you buy a Dendy? And what did you play?
@@juandager5220 I did not play anything, since I was born in 2003, but computers we were producing were Didaktik (not bad), IQ 151 (total crap), PMD88 (pretty alright) and then AT computers in Slušovice. There were also few other computers, but these were not that known. Stuff USSR made I don't know very well, that's why I watch this channel, but as Alex said, they were usually crap since USSR did not care.
Neat! I liked that you showed it running a "Dig Dug" (or is it more "Bolder Dash"?) type of game, although I admit that I don't remember seeing that game in the old days. I'll have to look it up!
Thank you!
Great video. Thank you for sharing!
Glad that you liked! Check also other episodes!
Retrofeeeling from the First Seconds...Nice done.😊
Glad that you liked!
Amazing! Well done!
Thank you Kris! Today gonna be more :)
I still remember the sound of these old printers :) Cool video!
in a few weeks (we hope) we will make one more episode about this computer, because we got more original peripherals and software, so it is time for an update. So we got two different original printers! They are even cooler than what you have seen in this video :)
Wow, great effort!
Thank you!
20:03 As a FAR Manager user still today (and Norton Commander back in the DOS days) this brings up a very familiar screen to me :)...
07:50 Interesting, that the programs in Chernobyl display funny animations for the program logos :-D
Haha, that is nothing comparing to Delograf. When in full 16 colors, that animation is changing backgrounds with a speed which may cause a stroke for certain users.
I'm using Midnight Commander at now.
@@redtex good choice!
An XT keyboard only has F1-F10, it was not until the AT came out that they added F11 and F12. I am sure Chyrosran22 would love to review the keyboard
Interesting, we did not know that! Thank you!
ב''ה, probably not relevant to this video, but *at least* by the time of the release of the real IBM AT, some 8088/8086/V20 clones (more XT-like) were offering F11 and F12, possibly not with the AT standard scancodes. The Tandy 1000SX, sort of an enhanced PCjr clone, was common enough and where my personal familiarity comes from, but "no-name" clones from this intermediate era could leave you very puzzled whether they were using the XT or AT electrical interface when needing to replace a keyboard.
Awesome video! I love old computers! Good job to both of you!
Thank you! Check also some newer episodes!
Hi Mihaela and Alex ! It is amazing how technology was back into those days !
We are glad that you liked! Check also newer episodes, we have much more :)
I love all that dry language in the instructions. Reminds me of British Rail, or other such state-run industries until the 1980s. So funny how bureaucracy's gonna bureaucracy, no matter the other factors.
Well, sometimes there is some point into being strict that much, but the reason of my gag in a video is that while what was pictured on a screen in that example is still so-so ok, the paper documentation for this computer is... something. It is very interesting that the main designer of ES1840, 1841 and 1842 eventually wrote a super user-friendly colorful book about these computers which explains everything normally and with good illustrations. Probably, he was also not super happy with the standards of that time :)
This reminds me of the computers in fallout 3😅 i love these old pc's and crt screens, greetings from germany🙂
Thank you! Greetings from Ukraine!
If you been to Pripyat it totally reminded me of Fallout 3 there was a market with old full soda bottles exactly like in Fallout! So many bottle caps to buy things
There were months when when we spent more time in Pripyat that out of it.....)
Thank you for this videos. I love to see this operating again :)
Thank you! Get ready for a new episode today!
Amazing piece of history, very cool to see working!
Glad you enjoyed it
I was writing COBOL / ASM using an 8086 PC with an amber screen ~37 years ago. I think the screen could toggle mono, green or amber and amber was the easiest on the eyes. This reminds me of these good old days.
Thank you for your memories! We find this toggle feature amazing, it really saves eyes.
Both the green and amber characters would give you a headache, but the headache from the green was much worse.
Дякую! It's very creative! Amazing! Помню, как в конце 80-х летел домой, окрыленный первой работающей программой, которую мне к тому-же разрешили взять домой на дискете 5.25. Воспоминания прям нахлынули. Я тогда работал, правда, с оригинальной IBM 286. Да и доктором стал, а не инженером. Но все равно спасибо за воспоминания. Отличная идея контента и реализация, подача. Супер! Дякую Вам ще раз! Натхнення! Вітання із Замбії!
Oh wow! Thank you for such a story, and greetings to you!
Моя мама дуже хотiла щоб з мене вирiс лiкар 😁
20:52 Memory map
Wow!.. Amazing!..I used Norton Commander in Argentina at those times. What a marvelous time. It's too bad what happened at Chernobyl. Super nice video!... Thank you very much.
Glad that you liked!
I got into computers and motherboard design during late 1989. Knowing the designs and chips at the time. These computers were from the 1985 earlier. Thesd Look pretty actual for the age. The interesting thing is that computers stored and rusted still work contrary to the newest computers that break after 5-7 years of use.
This is an interesting insight. Your point is very true. How do you think, what is the reason behind this? I mean, a phenomenon of a controlled aging is a well-known fact, but if take a look to back the 80-s, was it keeping of a good old quality approach or just non-understanding that this hardware will become obsolete?
@@ChernobylFamily the solution is simple. During the 1980's TTL technology was very robust In terms of materials, copper printed circuit boards, no organic capacitors or materials that degraded from heat and temperature. The quality was very good. The latest computer design is made to overheat and degrade the materials like electrolytic capacitors. Everything that should not be done, it is done intentionally at the design level. I remember HP making circuit boards with integrated GPU that burned the boards after hours of playing high intensive graphic applications because they did not provide a correct heat dissipator.
@@warclan5429 thank you! It's very interesting.
@@ChernobylFamily I had an romanian XT clone (Felix PC). Its case was made of thick steel sheet and weighted a lot. Some proprietary connectors, yes but it was compatible hardware and software with western computers. Its quality was outstanding, I got it after more that 20 years from its fabrication date and it was in excellent condition. Used for some 5-10 years then stored in a warehouse because was obsolete, its paint protected it from corrosion, the PCB was protected with some resin and only thing that I needed to swap was an IC that got one leg corroded. The floppy was only in need of cleaning and lubrication. Had no HDD but with an regular IDE MFM card I added two 20M HDDs. I sold it and kept only a PSU (AT style) that I got as spare; that PSU worked many years, without recapping or adjusting and powered 286, 386 and my last 5x86@133 motherboard fully populated, with 3 HDD and one CD-ROM without problems. I think it was 120-150W.
I know for a fact that at that time there were no (major) shortcuts from quality; an object was also made and bought to be used for many years and no just to replace an out-of-the-fashion one or to upgrade an working one. I knew people that bought theirs first color TV only when theirs B&W one broke, when color TVs were on the market since many 5-6 years.
I also went in 4 years from 286 up to 486 (that fully upgraded to 5x86) that I used until 2005 and only then upgraded to an (cheap and upgrade-able with parts that I already had) P1@166 just because some games could not run. But Windows and all the programs I used worked just fine on my 486.
@@sebastian19745 Felix rings a bell for me. Thank you for such a wonderful story, it is genuinely intestering, because these was not available for us.
The soviets figured out how to corrode "gold". 😂
Yes. Like from that old joke about a soviet guy locked in a room with 2 metal balls: "One ball I broke, and the second I... lost".
This is amazing! Keep up the good work
Thank you! Check also other episodes, there are more about this machine before and after this one, including some really little known details.
Great work!
Thank you, the great one!
Michaela is lovely, well done mate ❤
Thank you :) Check newer episodes too!
This is so cool! It brings me back to childhood games of the 80's. And these childhood games being played on a Soviet computer makes it more enjoyable! Love from Minnesota, USA! Slava Ukraine! 💙💛
Gerojam slava! Thank you!
See Mr.Doo game running in this old Soviet Era computer is amazing.
:)
We played Digger back in 1988-89 on our high school computers.
Did it on Poisk-1 Ukrainian-made machine and then on Poisk-2 in the school:) so bright feeling!
Looks just like Fallout
Haha, and tje things we gonna do next weeks will look even more! Thank you!
БЛя !! Играл в DIGGER! в далеком 1993 году ! у кого-то дома , вместо монитора использовался телевизор Электрон чернобелый . Из-за нечеткого изображения "думал" , что управляю кротом ! ))
True story! :)
Много интерестно Видео .Поздрави от България
Дякуємо!
It’s utterly inexplicable to my wife, but yours is one of the most amazing channels on YT. Part of it is you’re covering a period when I was cutting my teeth on tech (with a TI 99-A), part of it is the past tragedy of the plant disaster, part is the current outrage in Ukraine, and a big part is the utter charm of Alex and Michaela. The breadth of your coverage and ingenuity in presenting these, from computers to the abandoned babushka, is astounding. Thank you!!
Thank you for your warm and motivating words. The thing is, the diversity of subjects you can find on this channel come from the diversity of Chornobyl as a social, cultural, historical, and technological phenomenon. When you are in there, it becomes overwhelming how many aspects it has and how many events happened (and are happening) there at the same time. So this is our attempt to present this to people around.
The HDD controller chip can be repaired.
Just solder wires to what remains of the leads and mount it on a dip header.
The ceramic package is hermetically sealed so everything should be ok inside.
The trouble is, the chip appeared to be dead. I used all earthing-related precautions as well as low-power iron and low-temp solder to do that, but the chip did not work. Seems, will need to find it elsewhere:((
@@ChernobylFamily Socket also needs to be replaced as it's corroded inside. Now hopefully you can use a 2.54 socket and don't have to search for 2.50 ones.
@@ochykysh You have a right point, but.. mm it is so risky, I mean, these boards are 8-layers, and the quality is so-so, often when ylu solder them, entire connection between the layers falls apart. Will ask my way more skilled friend to check it.
You sure about 8 layers? AT stuff usually used 2-4 layers. What you (or friend) can do is carefully cut the socket out without touching the soldering points and very carefully solder the new socket on top of the stumps. The old socket needs to be removed as corrosion on the data lines will lead to very strange issues. Testing with a multi-meter is not enough, as the bad connection drops the amplitude of the data impulse, but still registers as "connected" by a multi-meter.
@@ochykysh Absolutely sure. This is not only written on each board itself, but confirmed by developers whom we met.
Well that was super cool! I hope you can fix that hard drive, would love to see it work. I knew the Soviets had computers alright, but I didn't think they'd be IBM compatibles, I thought they used a completely different thing. you never get to hear about IT history east of the UK, glad to see someone is filling that niche! :D
Also I guess I know now where the word "Kombinat" came from - I live in East Germany (or what used to be the GDR anyway) next to an oil/chemical "Kombinat", I always thought that's a German word. totally small detail I know 😂
Thank you! We seems found a source for a replacement, so let's hope for the best.
Soon - an episode about a Chernobyl computer from KOMBINAT Robotron ;))
A lot of western computer nerds act like it was nothing but PDP-11 clones. I knew for about 7? 8? years that actually, everything was cloned! From a ZX Spectrum to big mainframes.
For a PC with "low quality" cloned components, it works very well after so long
Yes, though to be honest we had to combine four machines in one sp it works... but it is lovely.
Excellent! Many thanks!
Glad that you liked! Check newer episodes!
Historia de la informática antigua. Gracias por el trabajo.
Gracias!
Ahora voy a arreglar un Compaq Presario Pentium 4 PGA 478.
Невероятно приятно за таким наблюдать, особенно за вашей улыбкой когда вы играли) спасибо за такое приятное видео
Thank you...) check also our newer episodes!
Loving your stuff already. I'm just warming a Z80 up to make my own CP/M machine. Stay safe!
Thank you Mark! We will! If you want to try M86 clone, let us know - we'll drop its .IMA somewhere. Or join us on patreon - there will be downloads on this.
Hi Michaela, Alex. Its a great bit of Soviet computing history.
Thank you..! At some point we will have a continuation about networking based on this.
Algorithm brought me here, extremely happy it did!
God bless the algorithm! Welcome, we will have a lot of intetesting Chernobyl-related videos!
Awesome video about a computer from the Chernobyl zone!!!! I'm very impressed about the "other side of the wall" computing equipment and how URSS replied the US systems...
Blessings and greetings from Venezuela!!! God bless Ukraine!!!! #SlavaUkraini!!!
Thank you! There will be more machines here, we had a lot of Western that time as well, but these are really interesting - glad you liked!
you guys seem very happy doing your job
great work
Well, Chernobyl is a life for us, not a job, so...) thank you!
@@ChernobylFamily that's a nice answer haha
@@samueldegrandi6603 however, true. There were years when we spent inside more time than outside...)
This is really awesome. I want one in my collection now. I love your language it looks and sounds cool.
Thank you! Well, we have one such computer we can sell, but it is really not cheap.
Thank You! This was interesting! i remember Digger was my sisters favorite game too, ha ha
A few our fellas told how they were playing Digger in 1990 in Pripyat. What a surrealism!
@@ChernobylFamily That was a realy cool story! I am old enough to clearly remember 1986 and the toxic rains here... A lot of moose meat, berries and mushrooms had to be discarded for years after.
@@sheep1ewe well, yes. In the future we are going to make an episode about fallout in Sweden. Or better to say, reaction to fallout in Sweden as it was handled in Chornobyl.
@@ChernobylFamily That would be interesting! I live in the north east which i think where a lot more affected than the south. I newer felt any anger, just curiosity about it and the importance of long therm planning and sustainability of human activities, whatever it is nuclear reactions or every day items that will accumulate over time.
@@sheep1ewe Tomorrow will check one document we have, a very detailed caesium atlas of the world. So we can check which region is more affected.
Are you aware of any Mazovias AT systems were used in Chernobyl plant?
There were some rumours that USSR imported some of that machines from Poland to adapt in state institutions like, well.. nuclear power plants because of better made quality than internal Soviet production.
P.S I hope you guys are safe and if you would need anything from Poland even not connected with retrocomputing, please contact!
Personally did not find references about Mazovias. But what was wildely used are MERA terminals for CM1420. We will have episode about MERA equipment at some point, so thank you for the offer - maybe, will need some parts!
Top Notch video. Amazing, I understood, but also didnt understand much. But overall this is amazing. Thank you for restoring.
Thank you! Just in order to improve: non-understanding was because of a my bad English, or?
@@ChernobylFamily no, i lost attention and i dont know much computer science or instructions, also add to that the obvious back and forth due to software. But its not that big issue. 😇😇🙏🙏
Thank you! Check please our newer videos as well.
I like the sweaty soviet overlay, dealing with his general PC.
:)
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@mazing !!!
d++++++++
it's truly incredible to see one of these working
Happy that you liked! Check other episodes too!
maybe you could bypass the corroded USSR gold-contacts of the chip with soldered wires - looks manageable...?! A socket for this chip might be easier to get?
Tried. The chip itself is bad.
Disappointing! Maybe someone could uncap the chip and burn a replacement.
@@Underestimated37 we'll ask ukrainian retro-computer community, maybe they have a replacement - if your idea won't work, and the idea is good.
It was incredibly slow drawing that pie chart predominantly because it was missing the arithmetic logic coprocessor. Drawing round objects uses significant amounts of trigonometry (cos, sine, tangent, etc), calculus, and go old algebra.
Very true. Hope to find that chip finally.
Oh the memories. I loved my 8088! MASSIVE 20 Megabyte Hard Drive. my 640kb Gaming days! Fantastic video! Thanks
Thank you very much! Greetings from Ukraine!
What was the result of Y2K with this machine did it just roll over?
Oh my god, we did not test!!! Let us try tomorrow, we'll write that! Thank you for such a brilliant question, seriously!
шикарный комп!
Самі в шоці!
I played digger ALOT when I was very young. I played it on a computerized cable TV service called Videoway. It was an identical port.
Cool!
How cool!!! I never even knew the Soviets used computers or even manufactured them, hardware and software.!! It has never even occurred to me. Great video!!
Thank you! Check two previous episodes and google who is Viktor Glushkov. You will like that :)
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Haha you made our evening!
I love you guys amazing how you get this working after all those years
Thank you! Check our newer episodes as well...!
"vintage computer federation forums ",is a good site to explore and share questions ideas too
Thank you!
Its my first PC. It contained Seagate 20Mb HDD and mouse. Also according to an old USSR book there was available a voice recognition extension hardware module.
Yes, we have a detailed video on those cards, it is old, but interesting - check it out. We could even meet one of developers of those cards.
Very cool video. Small suggestion: I suggest adding a notch audio filter to video sections with CRTs running to filter out the roughly 15khz noise they make. you may not be able to hear it but younger viewer can. checking with a spectrogram program can help verify that its gone
Super thanks for your advice! A few other viewers also noted that, we, unfortunately, did not hear that even.
What's the noise? Background static? Like White noise?
Great job! 👍🏻
Thanks! Check also newer episodes, this one is sooo old already :)
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I am 55 years old and I am crying because of the resurrection of Norton Commander.
Very very much understand your feelings
Contrarily to the pins of your hard drive controller chip, this channel is pure gold ;)
And this chip can be fixed! With a steady hand, it is possible to solder tiny bits of cut components legs (the bits that flies away everywhere when working with thru holes components....). Even if the original pin is broken at the edge of the package, it is possible to file it and have a contact point to solder. I've saved many hard to find chips for vintage pinball machines and ROMs chips this way. Even managed to fix a glass dot matrix display!
Thank you! In fact with incredible efforts we could find a replacement. There is one episode about ES1841 planned, where we will test it, as well as try network connectivity and some more cool things, so... gonna be interesting!
thank you guys!!
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love it, great stuff and very interesting
Thank you!
This is amazing, I really enjoyed the video!
This reminds me of exploring big piles of random software, back in the early nineties. As a nine year old boy from Sweden, I had no understanding of English - so menus and user interfaces were just as hard to understand back then, as something written in russian is today!
Thank you for your feedback and the story shared! Well, this is an old one...) We have a few more episodes about this machine, though.
That keyboard is beautiful and looks like a modern expensive custom build.
To be honest, it is surprising:) Our personal opinion - this keyboard but in its military version for ES1845 is way better. This one has such a type of keys that you really need to strike to the center of them, not really convenient.