A rare peek at personal computing behind the Iron Curtain. In the American mind, the Soviet Union in the Cold War era easily conjures images of stealthy submarines lurking in the deep, nuclear ...

*An article from sixteen years ago, but entropy requires no maintenance. "Make and take," comrade. During the Cold War scientific collaboration between the West and the Eastern-bloc countries was ...

We admire [Alex Studer’s] approach to schoolwork. His final assignment in his history class was to do an open-ended research project on any topic and — this is key — using any medium. He’d recently ...

"Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise ...

In the 1950s, the Soviet computer industry’s future seemed bright with the MESM. But by the ’80s, they were more content to simply clone their Western counterparts. Oobject brings us this collection ...

Long before the World Wide Web, the Soviets tried to save the USSR with a computer network. Why did their project never make it? For 12 year-old Oleg Guimaoutdinov, learning to programme a computer in ...

There are plenty of bizarre computers around from the 70s through the 90s before the world somewhat standardized around various duopolies of hardware vendors and operating systems. Commodore, Atari, ...

Before you go complaining about your job, take a moment to remember the MESM project, which just marked the 60th anniversary of its formal recognition by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The project, ...

During my recent stay in Moscow I was told several different variations on the following anecdote. Japanese experts were invited to assess the state of Soviet electronics and computer technology, and ...