Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
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Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
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Re: Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
#2Wow! I can’t believe I never heard of this.
Despite being born in Yugoslavia and alive at that time, I’ve never encountered or heard of Galaksija in my life. Sinclair stuff was pretty common: Spectrum and the older zx80, Commodore, even Amiga in the late 80s/early 90s. The only domestic machine I ever encountered was Orao.
Re: Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
#3> uninspired attempts to copy American IBM PCs
I fondly remember Bulgaria made Pravets, which was an excellent, high-quality clone.
Re: Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
#4Wow! I can’t believe I never heard of this. Despite being born in Yugoslavia and alive at that time, I’ve never encountered or heard of Galaksija in my life. Sinclair stuff was pretty common: Spectrum and the older zx80, Commodore, even Amiga in the late 80s/early 90s. The only domestic machine I ever encountered was Orao.
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#5The designer of this computer, Voja Antonic, works for Supplyframe now, parent company of Hackaday. He designed couple badges for the annually held Superconference, all of them are a delight to play with. This year’s Supercon will be held in the first week of November! Very excited!
Re: Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
#6> uninspired attempts to copy American IBM PCs I fondly remember Bulgaria made Pravets, which was an excellent, high-quality clone.
I looked for pravets but could not find. Did you mean Pravetz? There seems to be a lot of love for those things. An article here on its genesis...
https://3seaseurope.com/pravetz-ivan-marangozov-inventor-bul...
Re: Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
#7It is not correct to refer to it as Soviet-Era. Using the logic from the title, Apple Macintosh is also Soviet-Era.
Yugoslavia was never part of Warsaw bloc, it had its own political system and no USSR army on its territory.
Re: Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
#8Wow! I can’t believe I never heard of this. Despite being born in Yugoslavia and alive at that time, I’ve never encountered or heard of Galaksija in my life. Sinclair stuff was pretty common: Spectrum and the older zx80, Commodore, even Amiga in the late 80s/early 90s. The only domestic machine I ever encountered was Orao.
It was really "popular" in 1984 and 1985, and for hobbyists only. If you started being interested in computers after 1985 there was a big chance to never hear of it.
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#9We had a couple of these in primary school, as late as early 90s, as part of the "computing section", an extra-curricular activity with a couple of us attending a couple of times a month. We typically practiced BASIC commands and writing a couple of example "programs" - taking the keyboard input, producing results of arithmetic operations or producing lines on the screen, which was absolutely magical.
Re: Galaksija: The Soviet-Era, Z80-based microcomputer
#10As I said in another thread, there used to be more European computer technology in the 80s. Hardware technology shifted to the US, then to China. The rest of the world only does software now.