The Electronika 60 (russian: Электроника 60) is a
computer
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made in the
Soviet Union
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by
Elektronika
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in
Voronezh
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.
Overview
Alone the ''Electronika 60'' is a rack-mounted computer with no built-in display or storage devices. It was usually paired with a 15IE-00-013 terminal and I/O devices. The main logic unit is located on the M2 CPU board.
M2 CPU Technical Characteristics:
*
LSI-11
The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series. In total, around 600,000 PDP-11s of all models were sold, ...
(
PDP-11
The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series. In total, around 600,000 PDP-11s of all models were sold, ...
LSI CPU implementation) clone
* Word length: 16 bits
* Address space: 32K words (64 KB)
* RAM size: 4K words (8 KB)
* Number of instructions: 81
* Performance: 250,000 operations per second
* Floating-point capacity: 32 bits
* Number of
VLSI
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chips: 5
* Board dimensions: 240 × 280 mm
The original implementation of ''
Tetris
''Tetris'' (russian: link=no, Тетрис) is a puzzle video game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. It has been published by several companies for multiple platforms, most prominently during a dispute over the approp ...
'' was written for the Electronika 60 by
Alexey Pajitnov
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov. (born 16 April 1955) is a Russian-born American computer engineer and video game designer. He is best-known for designing and developing ''Tetris'' in 1984 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the A ...
. As the Electronika 60 doesn't have
raster graphics
upright=1, The Smiley, smiley face in the top left corner is a raster image. When enlarged, individual pixels appear as squares. Enlarging further, each pixel can be analyzed, with their colors constructed through combination of the values for ...
, text was used to form the blocks.
References
External links
Article about Electronika-60 in RussianImages of the Electronika 60MArchive software and documentation for Soviet computers UK-NC, DVK and BK0010
PDP-11
Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Soviet Union) computers
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