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monoxrom

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Hello all!
My name is Oles, i am from Ukraine, 25 years old.
met with computers in first time in 1998
It was 386 SX-40 computer with MS-DOS 6.22
I was play games like prehistorik-2, lost vikings, prince of persia, formula 1 and other
Computers in our contry at this time was rare. Seems no one in my school class had no computer in that time.
All children play games on dendi and sega (dendi is russian-china nintendo NES clone)
At year later we have Pentium 166 computer with 16 meg of ram and 3.4 gb hard disk
I only play games and one moment was thought, how and who these games are created?
This began my interest in programming... Now I work of computer service, repair computers in one of the bigest computer
company in our city.This work helped me much more to find a more old computers :)
I started collecting computers nearly 2005 (when i studied in coledge).
Then was found my first "exhibit" Epson EL-2 computer (286 with 1.1 mb ram and 40 mb HDD) i was buy it for 6 us dollars.
I liked the old computers they had some kind of magic..
little by little I began to collect old computers.
Special value representing USSR computers because they had made little circulation and USSR computers have many lot
of precious metals. Much more than other (usa/europe/china computers)
Many computers were destroyed in 90 years when people were poor, and did not work.
Precious parts from computers were very tempting :(
Now i'm have near 50 computers and 50 notebooks (not all are on my website) and many boxes of parts and other stuff
Computers from very old with 8" fdd to Alpha server. And notebooks from osborne 1 to panasonic toughbook pentium III.
I'm have a plans to open computer museum in my city. No such museum in our country now..
Sorry for the bad english. I don't know english so good and write with google.translate help :)
 
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Your english is just fine. And good idea for using Google Translator.:)

Which destroyed computers are you talking about, the USSR ones or just regular PCs. And good luck with the museum.
 
I'm talking about computers that were made in USSR. All compuetrs!
For example yellow connectors for boards (like ISA, and other too) have gold. This connectors cost near 5 dollars for male and 6 for female connector.
If computer have 8 slots as minimal then you have 8*5+8*6=88 us dollars. And other parts... All compuetrs have many palladium capacitors, They cost near 75-100$ for 100 gramm capacitors. And now standart computer like PC XT/AT cost 150-200 dollars. Big computers - more precious metals. When in the 90's salary was low old computers were doomed :(
 
Very nice web site! And some nice computers too.

I really like the Highscreen Laptop, but that Агат 7 is a real prize - and the keyboard is to die for. I'm curious; what kind of OS did it come with originally?
 
Thank you all!

Ole Juul
Agat 7 is 8 bit computer. He have some monitor like basic and you can start program from diskettes on this "basic" Also some agat-dos were in use there
some info from this computer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agat_computer

Also i'm have this computers too:
- DVK-3 (very big and slow computer. Weight about 40 kg)
http://www.leningrad.su/museum/show_calc.php?n=241

- Poisk (Ukrainian simple XT clone)
http://www.leningrad.su/museum/show_calc.php?n=240

- electronika 85 (DEC Pro-350 clone)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/thumb/7/7a/El-85.jpg/800px-El-85.jpg

And i'm have poisk-2, very rare ukrainian computer. XT clone computer. Total is 2-3 pieces of this computers in collectors. But my computer not fully working :(
 
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