http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/easteurope_ussr.htmlAnyone, who lived in the USSR or Eastern Europe (up to 1991-ish) own a home computer? If so, what were you experiences and memories of the computer you had?
The 1st computer I had was an acorn electron and yeah, that was not a soviet system, but I used it to play computer games. They took ages to load and were mostly crap, but at the time we thought they were amazing.
As for the software for soviet computers, the games, what were they like? Similar to ours? Shoot-em ups, maze games, text/graphic adventures, puzzles etc. Or did they have an ideological message that supported the soviet way of life.
I am intrigued because I'm old enough to remember the home computer boom of the early 80's in the UK, when you had dozens of competiting home systems here, I can remember at least a dozen, though the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64 were the market leaders. All that competition does not mean we necessarily had better systems and games in the West as there was limit to what these computers could do.
I have heard that out of the Easter Bloc countries it was Yugoslavia that had the best models with the Galaksija
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaksija_(computer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... YugoslaviaBut it probably helped that they were non-alinged and were not restricted in the use of foreign help in developing their computer industry.