The Iskra 1030 (russian: Искра 1030) was an
Intel 8086 compatible personal computer produced in the
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
.
It was designed by Elektronmash (russian: ЛНПО «Электронмаш») in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. The main manufacturers were the Iskra factory (russian: Искра) in
Smolensk
Smolensk ( rus, Смоленск, p=smɐˈlʲensk, a=smolensk_ru.ogg) is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest ...
and the Shchyotmash factory (russian: Счётмаш) in
Kursk
Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...
. The model line consisted of Iskra 1030.11 (basic), Iskra 1030М (modified), Iskra 1031, and Iskra 3104.
Specification
The Iskra 1030M produced from 1989 comprised:
* CPU:
K1810VM86
The K1810VM86 (russian: К1810ВМ86, italic=yes) is a Soviet 16-bit microprocessor, a clone of the Intel 8086 CPU with which it is binary and pin compatible. It was developed between 1982 and 1985. The original K1810VM86 supported a clock frequen ...
(russian: КР1810ВМ86, Intel
8086
The 8086 (also called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and June 8, 1978, when it was released. The Intel 8088, released July 1, 1979, is a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (allowi ...
clone), 4.77 MHz
* RAM: 640 KB
* Display: color CGA compatible
* Floppy disk drive: 1×720 KB
* Hard disk drive: 20 MB
* Operating system: ADOS (russian: АДОС; Russian DOS, compatible with MS-DOS/PC DOS 2.x and 3.x),
MS-DOS
MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few ope ...
,
CP/M-86
* Release Date: 1989
I1030m.jpg, Искра 1030М
I1031.jpg, Искра 1031
Software
The computer was shipped with ADOS, a Russian version of MS-DOS/PC DOS 2.x and 3.x, a
BASIC interpreter, the special language and interpreter for accounting calculations YAMB (russian: ЯМБ, Язык машин бухгалтерских), the text editor R1. The operating system used the
main code page, hardwired into the display ROM; it was compatible neither with
CP 866 nor
CP 855, although partially with
ISO/IEC 8859-5
ISO/IEC 8859-5:1999, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic alphabet'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 198 ...
.
See also
*
ES PEVM
ES PEVM (ЕС ПЭВМ) was a Soviet clone of the IBM PC in 1980s. The ES PEVM models lineup also included analogues of IBM PC XT, IBM PC AT, IBM XT/370.
The computers and software were adapted in Minsk, Belarus, at the Scientific Research Inst ...
External links
* Sergei Frolov's Soviet Digital Electronics Museum
*
Iskra 1030.11*
Iskra 1030M*
Iskra 1031*
Iskra 1030 (PC Museum)
References
{{List of Soviet computer systems
Personal computers
Soviet computer systems