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0 pointsp_l3y ago0 comments

It's arguably a continuation of MK-85, which if you go mad with soldering could be upgraded with enough RAM and disk to run UNIX V6 or V7 - as the pocket "programmable calculator" had essentially MicroPDP-11/73 or MicroPDP-11/83 on a chip, including the MMU.

And the CPUs weren't clones, they were in-house design by Elektronika that had to adapt by decree to supporting PDP-11 instruction set and Q-bus.

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jkaljundi3y ago

Loved my MK-85, did a lot of BASIC programming on it as a kid. Using pixel graphics you could do even games. I think the demo game it came with was horce racing jumping over fences.

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0 pointsp_l3y ago0 comments

And the CPUs weren't clones, they were in-house design by Elektronika that had to adapt by decree to supporting PDP-11 instruction set and Q-bus.

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jkaljundi3y ago

Loved my MK-85, did a lot of BASIC programming on it as a kid. Using pixel graphics you could do even games. I think the demo game it came with was horce racing jumping over fences.

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