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Just for fun and in case of Friday desided to post pictures of ES 1863.11 - 386sx PC that were made around 1993-94 in Minsk, Bellarussia.
Just for fun and in case of Friday desided to post pictures of ES 1863.11 - 386sx PC that were made around 1993-94 in Minsk, Bellarussia.
wow, at first I thought it was just a local brand but now I see that when you say "made in Minsk" you really mean it! nice one!
Wow! That's a think of beauty. Check out those translucent ISA slots - never seen anything like it. Everything looks hand-soldered and even the video BIOS originated in Minsk.
Amazing, thanks for sharing.
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wrote:Everything looks hand-soldered and even the video BIOS originated in Minsk.
Amazing, thanks for sharing.
Yes - it has it's own bios setup - it's possible, for example on that machine to set 8/12/16/33 mhz of CPU SPEED in it)
Awesome machine! 😁 Thank you very much for sharing this!
It's not something we do see every day - these translucent ISA slots are beautiful, as someone already said.
The wiring/pcb design reminds me a tiny bit of the Robotron models from eastern Germany (A7150/EC1834, link/link),
but they weren't as nearly as up-to-date.. Just out of curiosity, are you running "normal" MS-DOS, like 6.2 or something more exotic
(Альфа-ДОС/Alpha DOS, DCP, PTS-DOS, or DOS 4.01 with the russian nag screen) ?
Silly question, I know. 😅 My knowledge about eastern computers is quite limited (Japan stuff aside), though.
A few of my older computer magazines (some from the mid80s) mentioned several eastern DOS systems,
so I guess DOS was quite popular there (just think of the original Tetris).
Well, at least more popular than Macintosh systems or Amigas.. 😉
Anyway, I'm honest when I say that this machine is nicely built! It looks like it was made to last forever.
I had no idea that such craftsmanship was still alive in '94; someone could think that mainboards
from Taiwan where already all over the place by then.
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wrote:Just out of curiosity, are you running "normal" MS-DOS, like 6.2 or something more exotic
(Альфа-ДОС/Alpha DOS, DCP, PTS-DOS, or DOS 4.01 with the russian nag screen) ?Silly question, I know. 😅 .
Thanks for an interest to my post ) 😊
Here's a site of my friend from St.Petersbourg about Soviet/Eastern Block digital devices
- http://www.leningrad.su/museum/main.php?lang=0
As you can see, there were some x-86 machines, most of them can run normal MS-DOS 6.22, but "then" were commonly used with "other DOS'es". For myself I have Robotron ES1834 which came with an ST-225 MFM HD, with common M$ DOS 6.22 insalled, although originally there was special DOS version by Robotron. This machine is not brought to fully working condition yet, so I cannot post it here now...( Maybe in Spring I'll restore it)
And that exactly that machine - ES1863.11 - I'just installed common IDE HDD about 300-400 mbs using Ontrack Disk Manager 7.0 and put MS-DOS 6.22 on it - As I do with all my X-86 DOS pc's from IBM 5150 to Pentiums). May be I'm lazy, maybe I just do not see a reason to try other versions of DOS on a PC-compatible)))...
And about Tetris - it was written by A.Pajitnov on Soviet PDP-11 Compatibles, like DVK or Elektronika... Here's a picture of a DVK3m with it on screen (at the left, on the left - home PDP11 compatible - BK11m)
CMOS checksum failure - battery seems dead 😀
This is quite tremendous! I don't normally fuss too much over 16-bit 386 systems but this one is that bit more special. Thanks for sharing.
btw... what is the game on screen? I recognise it.
wrote:[..] I don't normally fuss too much over 16-bit 386 systems [..]
Understandable, they where even slower than 286 machines at times.
But on the positive side, they usually had intelligent (286-)chipsets or a very small board design. ^^
wrote:btw... what is the game on screen? I recognise it.
Loom ? Sorry, not sure, but that game also had a prison room..
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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Defenetly, not Loom. The picture was made about 2012 - I don't remember, maybe it's some game about DiskWorld...
wrote:btw... what is the game on screen? I recognise it.
Curse of Enchantia 😀