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Re: Elektronika MK-61

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Post by [deleted] »

29athrowaway wrote: post #8
ggm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Removing a top level domain (TLD) from the DNS when people still want to use it is a no-no. There's a vibrant, active community in .su, and I hope they continue. It's mostly completely distinct from the political question "what does it mean" regarding 2 letter top level domains, and the ISO3166 list, and the status of entities in the ICANN process. (well.. maybe not the last bit: ICANN has enough fights on its hands…

Most .io domains are not from the British Indian Ocean territory. Yet, many people like to use that TLD. And it's OK.

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Re: Elektronika MK-61

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Post by 0des »

ggm wrote: post #10
29athrowaway wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most .io domains are not from the British Indian Ocean territory. Yet, many people like to use that TLD. And it's OK.

Sure. Tuvalu made good income from .tv, There's a vibrant market in ideas out there. It's just a bit odd that it existed as a grandfathered in thing, And then the grandfathering remained after the raison d'etre ended.

Haha I love how most of the internet just agrees that tokelau is like the outcast TLD of the internet. I've seen filters alert just from accessing a .tk because of them being free and maybe still are. I think it used to be Dot.tk giving them away

Re: Elektronika MK-61

#13

Post by octobus2021 »

d_silin wrote: post #3

I had one as a kid. Incredibly capable machine with just a hundred bytes of RAM. You could play real-time games on it, using GRAD-DEG-RAD switch as hardware joystick!

Wouldn't exactly call it capable, it had 20 memory registers and 106 bytes of programming memory. Plus Reverse Polish Notation is not exactly easy to use. Still great memories, so many kids of my generation discovered computers through those. I actually got one from eBay last year, cost me about $60 with 220->110 converter. I think somebody's selling unsold inventory from the factory. Printed out some old articles and went through first 2 legs of Kon-Tiki journey. Fun times :)

Re: Elektronika MK-61

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Post by orbital-decay »

d_silin wrote: post #3

I had one as a kid. Incredibly capable machine with just a hundred bytes of RAM. You could play real-time games on it, using GRAD-DEG-RAD switch as hardware joystick!

Yes, MK-52 and MK-61 always had a large community of tinkerers around them, exploiting hardware and software bugs (or rather the machine's extreme simplicity) to write seemingly impossible programs. The bugs were never fixed in later revisions though, so while they were fun to play with as a kid, I have mixed feelings about it as an adult engineer. Having an errata instead of actual bugfix wasn't very helpful. My uncle hated them back in the days for this, and when home computer kits appeared, he got one and never looked back.

Re: Elektronika MK-61

#15

Post by smcl »

29athrowaway wrote: post #8
ggm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Removing a top level domain (TLD) from the DNS when people still want to use it is a no-no. There's a vibrant, active community in .su, and I hope they continue. It's mostly completely distinct from the political question "what does it mean" regarding 2 letter top level domains, and the ISO3166 list, and the status of entities in the ICANN process. (well.. maybe not the last bit: ICANN has enough fights on its hands…

Most .io domains are not from the British Indian Ocean territory. Yet, many people like to use that TLD. And it's OK.

> And it's OK

I agree that the use of ccTLDs by people who are not from a given country is OK - like having a .it or .me or a .tv domain as an American or a Brit etc. However the specific case of .io is, to put it politely, rather complicated.

Re: Elektronika MK-61

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Post by paganel »

Also from Elektronika there was the IM-02 Nu, Pogodi! [1] handheld game device, which I used to play obsessively as a teen in the early '90s. Very good times. I've only later (with access to the Internet) learned that it was a clone after some Western-made device.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9fqGVrh9vg

Re: Elektronika MK-61

#17

Post by [deleted] »

29athrowaway wrote: post #8
ggm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Removing a top level domain (TLD) from the DNS when people still want to use it is a no-no. There's a vibrant, active community in .su, and I hope they continue. It's mostly completely distinct from the political question "what does it mean" regarding 2 letter top level domains, and the ISO3166 list, and the status of entities in the ICANN process. (well.. maybe not the last bit: ICANN has enough fights on its hands…

Most .io domains are not from the British Indian Ocean territory. Yet, many people like to use that TLD. And it's OK.

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Re: Elektronika MK-61

#18

Post by tgv »

masswerk wrote: post #6

Also have a look at the MK-90 (1988), its processor is a PDP-11 on a chip and it runs DEC BASIC. https://elektronika.su/en/calculators/elektronika-mk-90/

Wow, that's amazing overkill. I'd love to play with it.

Re: Elektronika MK-61

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Post by rmrfchik »

Heh. Had one. I overclocked my calculator by installing lower resistor (like 1MOhm to 250k, don't remember actual values). It sure was brilliant back then. Numbers were expressed in scientific notation and despite there were only 2 digits for order, actually calculator was capable to calculate up to 10^999. Number greater 10^99 were displayed as "ERROR" (in 7 segment it was 'ЕГГОГ'), but if you lower order you can get correct mantissa. In fact, the situation was more complex, some numbers were '3ГГОГ'. It was very fun to discover hidden secrets.
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