Re: metric DIL packages

Hello!

HÁRSFALVI Levente wrote:

> At least I seem to get the impression that they indeed did manufacture a
> lot of cloned chips even in the '90s. On a somewhat related note, just
> recently, I was surprised to learn how late "home computers" (8-bit home
> computers) became popular in Russia, as compared to the West or even HU.
> As it looks, our friends barely started manufacturing and selling ZX
> Spectrum clones to the masses by the late 80s, and it wasn't until the
> early 90s the subculture has taken off (that is, documentation spread
> around, people swapped programs, machines were built and developed by
> enthusiasts). That at least felt a little bit strange. Even though
> Hungary didn't regularly manufacture MSI chips (in fact all the early
> local HCs used East German Z80 family clones and various eastern bloc
> TTLs), the first local home computer models had already appeared by the
> early 80s, and by the mid 80s things were all set.

I would imagine that home computers did not fit particularly well into
the Marxist-Leninist ideology. Computers are means of work, therefore
they belong in factories and research institutes. The State and the
Party would not gain anything if members of the working class wasted
their time and energy on hacking computers at home instead of striving
to serve the glory of Communism. That would be perceived as decadent and
frivolous, and therefore was probably frowned upon by the Party
officials in a similar way to production of sport cars and other such stuff.

In Hungary and Poland, harsh as it was, the communist regime was peanuts
compared to the Soviet Union. The Party had much more control over
people's lives there and so I guess that's why of the reasons they got
home computers so late.

> Hah, +-0.4mm just shouldn't be an obstacle ;-))). (And even if is, the
> chips should probably still fit in non-precision (low cost) ic sockets
> "unmodified".)

I had the same idea about non-precision sockets, I will try them as soon
as I unpack.

So, we have Soviet CPUs and peripherals, Soviet SRAMs and EPROMs, but
how about glue logic? Did they also make 74xx parts?

Regards,
Michau.

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