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  Minsk Family of Computers
The total number of the Minsk-22 computers produced had reached 734 (852 with the Minsk-2/22 models), therefore the leading positions of Minsk machines in the USSR fleet of computers were substantially strengthened.
The computer had an advanced system of interruptions and suspensions, universal connections to peripherals (actually with the byte-multiplex channel), the protected area of memory with utility programs, special instructions for editing and processing the alphanumeric fields of a variable length; the machine also allowed using a great number of index fields for each program array.
The Minsk SKB team at the end of 60s was the most professional team in the country and perfectly qualified for developing a series of inter-compatible computers on the basis of IBM 360 architecture.
www.computer-museum.ru /english/minsk0.htm   (3366 words)

  
  Leo Computers Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The HP 9800 series was family of programmable calculators (later called desktop computers) which replaced the HP 9100 calculator.
Compared with modern computers which typically require programmers to define calculations by means of complicated programming languages, these were designed for direct algebraic entry, so as to not distract the intended users (scientists and engineers) from the task at hand.
On modern computers, the reading of characters is usually entered first, then an input method editor (IME), also sometimes known as a front-end processor, shows a list of candidate kanji that are a phonetic match, and allows the user to choose the correct characters.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Leo_Computers.html   (2476 words)

  
 Belarusian Computer Industry
Anyway, because of this the Soviet computer Industry had started to develop only when Joseph Stalin was long dead and the West had already its first successes in computers.
Family of "Minsk" Computers - general purpose computers that were developed in 1960-ies in Minsk and manufactured between 1961 and 1975.
At the end of 1960-ies a dubious decision was made to dedicate all USSR computer development resources to building computers - analogs of Western computers.
www.belarusguide.com /industry1/computer.htm   (930 words)

  
 The Strategic Dimensions of the U.S. Computer Exports to the USSR
Computers multiply man's brainpower with the same force that the first in dustrial revolution multiplied man's muscle power lasers, and nucleonics are inter-related.
Furthermore, computers Corquters are as important and intrusive as the mathenlatics and the data processing systems required to conceive, build, and operate complex new machines and to create new materials cording and interpretation of entire classes of observations.
computers which are designed to optimize the computation o a spec1 ic class of Many militarized computers are special-purpose digital or analog 7 The performance of a computer system, especiallyits processing speed, is a function of the architecture of the computer system and its hardware.
www.heritage.org /Research/HomelandDefense/bg12.cfm   (3833 words)

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