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Just rembember to shit in a corner if you do visit.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN.
Sweden is being attacked via the Internet by Russia; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11740587 for more detals. This is the substantiation.
Oh I remember those! Nice. With the obligatory soda machine. They had a regular glass (made from glass, not disposable). Pushed it upside-down in this washer valve which sprayed water on the inside of it. So you "washed it". Then you put coin in, forgot how many kopeyks for regular fizzy water, it cost more to add syrup. Then the person behind you used that same glass, and so on. Today I'd think it is crazy unsanitar…
Kvass poured out and along with it monstrous worms size of a human leg (nobody ever washes those canisters).
I wonder if that was possible.
Oh I remember those! Nice. With the obligatory soda machine. They had a regular glass (made from glass, not disposable). Pushed it upside-down in this washer valve which sprayed water on the inside of it. So you "washed it". Then you put coin in, forgot how many kopeyks for regular fizzy water, it cost more to add syrup. Then the person behind you used that same glass, and so on. Today I'd think it is crazy unsanitar…
Oh I remember those! Nice. With the obligatory soda machine. They had a regular glass (made from glass, not disposable). Pushed it upside-down in this washer valve which sprayed water on the inside of it. So you "washed it". Then you put coin in, forgot how many kopeyks for regular fizzy water, it cost more to add syrup. Then the person behind you used that same glass, and so on. Today I'd think it is crazy unsanitar…
PS. There's much more info about soda machines in Russian version, and lots of cool graphics too:
http://gazirovka.15kop.ru/machines/ (scrolls horizontally, in case you haven't noticed)
Is this by design, a sort of Soviet nihilistic humor?
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It's a clone of a U.S. product, Sea Hunter. Same for most of the other Soviet arcades.
Do you know if they run on 6502s and other Western chips of the time? Were they cloned, or imported? Or were there Soviet ISA's? I remember reading years ago about how Russian computer scientists in the cold war were more honed in algorithm design, because they basically had to squeeze as much as they could out of their processors to compete with faster Western hardware.
Some computer based arcades started to appear in late 1980s, but more like Pong clones and similarly simple "racing" games with 2600-like sprites. At this point the "coops" started popping up, offering pay per minute experience on Atari 800 and ZX Spectrum.
There was no Soviet 6502 or Z80 clone; there were however 8080A clones and DEC LSI-11 inspired designs. There were a bunch of creative programmers sure, although there hardly was a real "school" and CS remained largely backwaters to the West.
Oh I remember those! Nice. With the obligatory soda machine. They had a regular glass (made from glass, not disposable). Pushed it upside-down in this washer valve which sprayed water on the inside of it. So you "washed it". Then you put coin in, forgot how many kopeyks for regular fizzy water, it cost more to add syrup. Then the person behind you used that same glass, and so on. Today I'd think it is crazy unsanitar…
Was the washer something like this: http://www.micromatic.com/mmoldimages/galleries/mdd68s/mdd68... ?
Oh I remember those! Nice. With the obligatory soda machine. They had a regular glass (made from glass, not disposable). Pushed it upside-down in this washer valve which sprayed water on the inside of it. So you "washed it". Then you put coin in, forgot how many kopeyks for regular fizzy water, it cost more to add syrup. Then the person behind you used that same glass, and so on. Today I'd think it is crazy unsanitar…
Oh man those kvass canisters. So in our area there was an urban legend that once a truck transporting kvass (kind of like a fuel truck) crashed and fell on the side. Kvass poured out and along with it monstrous worms size of a human leg (nobody ever washes those canisters). I wonder if that was possible.
A quick Google for "giant worms" finds a few that are a couple centimeters in diameter around the world, but none in the vicinity of Russia.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know if they run on 6502s and other Western chips of the time? Were they cloned, or imported? Or were there Soviet ISA's? I remember reading years ago about how Russian computer scientists in the cold war were more honed in algorithm design, because they basically had to squeeze as much as they could out of their processors to compete with faster Western hardware.
Morskoi Boi/Sea Hunter has no computer, or chips for that matter. It's 1960s tech. Some computer based arcades started to appear in late 1980s, but more like Pong clones and similarly simple "racing" games with 2600-like sprites. At this point the "coops" started popping up, offering pay per minute experience on Atari 800 and ZX Spectrum. There was no Soviet 6502 or Z80 clone; there were however 8080A clones and DEC…
