News Soviet PC Replica From Chernobyl Zone Boots Up After 30 Years

[Admin]

A Slovakia-based YouTube channel, Chornobyl Family, managed to boot up a PC built of 80s-era Soviet hardware. It includes a Russian port of MS-DOS - AlphaDOS - and a clone of Intel's 8086. And it all glows black and yellow.

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[setx]

Can you imagine how hard it can be to find the specific floppy disks needed to make the mainframe run within the small numbers of floppy disks that still operate today? When have you last seen one?

While finding the right soft is hard, finding just a working 5'' floppy is not. I've checked some of my 3'' floppies last year and they work. I also have some 5'' stored... somewhere. They are from my ZX Spectrum.

Did those include five-inch floppies printed by Electron Mass Factor out of Kyiv?

Some of them might as well be from Kyiv, what's so unbelievable?
It's not like those are 8'' floppies that are way harder to find.

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

They sure don't make them like they used to.

 

[LabRat 891]

I wonder if GSC could get this setup for the STALKER 2 launch?

 

[Juhi123]

How is it a mainframe-type system? To me, it seems it is just an old IBM PC clone.

 

[randyh121]

How is it a mainframe-type system? To me, it seems it is just an old IBM PC clone.

Quite simple.......
mainframe-type system from Chornobyl sounds cooler

 

[GhostGreyWolf]

All of you must be a lot younger than I am…

Because my first thought was

“EYE AM EEEN-VEEEEEEN-CIBLE!”*










*(GoldenEye)

 

[Matt_ogu812]

Replica: an exact reproduction/copy

This means it was 'NOT' an 'OFFICIAL' PC that had been at the Chernobyl site when the nuclear power plant blew up and sitting there for 30 + - years.
At least this is the way the article is written.
It was a 'COPY/REPRODUCTION' of one just like it.
I don't see where this is news worthy.