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Let's talk about domestic laptops. No, not about the Chinese branded models RoverBook type or iRu. But the present, from head to toe, that is, from the processor to the battery, Russian product. This was not, and can not be? Mistaken





In the Soviet Union with strong brands do not bother. All the cars - this is * AZ'y (MAZ, KrAZ, gases, vases), and all the electronics - is "Electronics". Now only the old-timers remember, and that under this brand were produced almost all having in his part of the transistors and capacitors. Watches, calculators, tape recorders, televisions, video recorders, handheld games microprocessor, synthesizers and many other useful things Soviet man. Monopolist, and only!

As befits a major corporation, trade mark "Electronics" was based on the number of enterprises located in Zelenograd (the plant "Micron", "Angstrom", NGO "Science Center" Solnechnogorsk (Solnechnogorsk Electromechanical Plant), Leningrad (the factory "Svetlana") and Even in Belarus (NPO "Integral"). As can be seen from the presence in the production cycle "Electronics" NPO (scientific production association), not just a brand rivet consumer goods and products made on a solid basis of Soviet science.

A particular focus of the "Electronics" were electronic computers (computers). Their range is, of course, can not be compared with a variety of monsters have, like HP or Dell, but the inertia of economic machine of the USSR he was quite scale. Some were microcomputer "Elektronika" produces more than twenty titles! Just among these twenty micro-computer and hidden our hero - the first home laptop "Electronics MS 1504", in the world PK300.

Looking at the "Electronics MS 1504", it is hard to believe that this is a domestic product. But the fact remains

Bottom "Electronics MS 1504" graced soundly Soviet markings. Free price.

Serial production of MS in 1504 started in 1991, and knowing the speed of rotation of the Soviet production system, designed it started the year that way in 1986. However, what it means to be designed? It is worth a closer look, it becomes clear that the prototype was the first Soviet laptop model T1100 Plus offers Toshiba, published in a series of right in 1986.



Gemini MC 1504 - cult laptop T1100 Plus company Toshiba. As you can see, well able to copy not only the Chinese

What pleased the Soviet man, not encumbered by lack of money, "Electronics MS 1504"? Under strong plastic housing frame will fit:

• CPU: KR1834VM86 (analogue zabugornogo Intel 80C86), operating at a frequency of 4, 77 MHz;
• Memory (RAM) - as much as 640 kilobytes;
• graphics adapter CGA, pretending to the surface resolution of 640x200 pixels and as much as 16 colors;
• two floppy disk drive form factor of 3, 5 '', supporting the recording density of 720 kilobytes.



Circuitry MS 1504 is far from that of the imported IBM PC. But everything is done on the conscience and of the domestic components

On the periphery of the MS 1504 communicates via:

• parallel port, but not LPT, and IRPR-M (radial interface Parallel, modernized), called CPU-NSMD and used to connect the CPU (digital-printing device), as well as an external floppy drive;
• a standard COM-port RS-232;
• Standard connector VGA;
• AV-connector that lets you connect the unit to NTSC-compatible TV.



For shildikami "Line", "Monitor" and the CPU-NSMD hiding usual personalki ports

MC 1504 was completed with contrast LCD display displays the work confidently MS DOS operating system version 3.2 and, if necessary, could raskochegarivat your processor to an incredible 7, 16 MHz due to the button "Speed" transforming mode Turbo.

To the programmer is not missed, the screen "Electronics MS 1504" is equipped with a ruler. Standard text for the resolution of 80 by 25 divisions.

Ate MS 1504 voltage 9 volts and 30 watts of power required. I cope with this task switching power supply and batteries. C in such a power supply unit "Electronics MS 1504" were not afraid of the domestic electrical surges.

The "Electronics MS 1504" there was a Russified BIOS.

It is necessary to pay tribute to Soviet engineers: apart drives company TEAS, all computer accessories are domestic production, although it is similar to the foreign crystals. So, for the processor chip worked DL-24 (VM86 another marking), the controller RAM - chip BT-37, and the interrupt controller - VN59. Power supply was also full of national development.

In short, the unit was excellent. So why did the Soviet shops were not swamped by Soviet laptops? The reasons, as is common in our power, complex: economic and political.

From an economic perspective MS 1504 1991 outrageously outdated. I recall that he was lapped toshibovskogo T1100 Plus, who had already assembled all the credit and successfully went into circulation, losing to 90th place models with 286 and 386 processors Intel, stocked sufficiently capacious hard drives. But the economy - it is not so bad. 90s blew almost all the foundations of the Soviet Union, destroying the seemingly unbreakable production links between enterprises. In such circumstances, it is not something that laptop - stool in mass production was unthinkable thing.

And we know further. The resultant vacuum poured computing imported models: more powerful, cheaper and more prestigious (at the time). Requiem for "Electronics MS 1504" was played. If you think that the MC 1504 was the first and only, as a "Buran", you are mistaken. "Electronics" for some time struggled against foreign competitors producing in parallel with the MS 1504 laptop "Electronics 901", equipped with desyatimegabaytnym hard drive, and even a model with a 286 processor, and (!) Plasma display.

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"Electronics 901" - follower model MC 1504 with the hard drive.

So there is the concept of "domestic Notebook"? "Electronics MS 1504" proves - there! And it is worth remembering the creators of science cities, domestic operating systems and supercomputers.



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