29 Sep
2026
29 Sep
'26
2:11 p.m.
On Sep 29, 2026, at 2:12 PM, Antonio Carlini via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Oddly enough I've been compiling a list of non-power-of-two machines and Ai does a
good (or at least credible) job of turning web pages I don't understand into ones I
think mostly match DeepL and Google Translate.
It's interesting how many of them are unauthorized copies of Western machines.
I have somewhere a brochure from a computer manufacturer in Soviet-occupied Lithuania
named STIMTI; the text is mostly in Lithuanian with shorter versions in Russian and
German. I forgot the details; I think one of the machines was their own design but
several are copies of DEC machines.
There is of course the famous story, possibly true, about the CVAX chip having a little
note on it in Russian saying "CVAX --- when you want to steal the very best".
paul