Electronika 60
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Computer
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made in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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by Elektronika
Elektronika
Electronika is the brand name used for many different electronic products such as calculators, electronic watches, portable games and radios in the Soviet Union and, nowadays, in Russia...
in Voronezh
Voronezh
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. It was a clone of a DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...
LSI-11.
The Elektronika 60 CPU was a rack-mount unit that served as a part of computing complex also comprising a 15IE-00-013 terminal and I/O devices. The main logic unit is located on the M2 CPU board.
M2 CPU Technical Characteristics:
- Word length: 16 bit
- Address space: 32K-words (64KB)
- RAM size: 4K-words (8KB)
- Number of instructions: 81
- Performance speed: 250,000 operations per second
- Floating point capacity: 32 bit
- Number of VLSIVery-large-scale integrationVery-large-scale integration is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed. The microprocessor is a VLSI device.The first semiconductor...
chips: 5 - Board dimensions: 240 × 280mm
The original implementation of Tetris
Tetris
Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...
was written for the Elektronika 60 by Alexey Pajitnov
Alexey Pazhitnov
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov born 14 March 1956) is a Russian computer engineer, residing in the United States, who developed the popular game Tetris while working for the Computing Center of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D center.Despite being the developer of...
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