This is first Russian laptop, made under the brand “Elektronika”. The production started in 1991 and lasted not very long due to the high price of the device – none of the common people could afford themselves such devices. The price for the computer was around $6000, that equals 25,000 roubles according to that time’s exchange rate, when the average salary across the country was 500 roubles (50 times less!).
As we mentioned before in the article “How the richest Russians became rich” at that time there were practicaly no people who earned a lot and could afford such hardware for personal use. It was mainly produced for larger industrial factory engineers so that they could carry it along with them and plug to the larger machines they operated.
It has been reported that not more than a thousand of such computers were produced. The exact technical specifications are not very clear.
According to people who used them the specifications were as following:Â
CPU, Intel 8086 clone, with the speed of 4.47 Mhz
RAM: 1mb
Videocard: CGA (It was such a video standard that supported only two colours, black and white)
Screen: Monochrome (black&white) 640×200
HDD: no exact data
Weight: approx. 10 lbs (it was heavy!)
And it seems the exterior was a kind of cloning attempt of Toshiba-3100
It’s a very rare exhibit, due to its limited production. Many people even don’t know that in the late 80s there were a laptop production in Russia.
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Interesting! (:
The only point is that CGA is not monochrome. You can display several colors (say four!) on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
Rasha foreva
So Cute! ^_^
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Hi all! CGA supported up to 16 colors or tones (for monochrome displays) – you could even write a 3D simulator on it:)
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Garkin, true!
nothing antirussian in text. just info. for everybody to know that there were Russian Laptops.
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Garkin+1…
A great innovation of that time.
Are you know the price was on laptops in USA in 1991? :))
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For all russian people who posted their comments here. Be patience for other! don’t spoil this article with bad words!
if it was a 16 bit 8086 (or clone), then you can only address up to 64KB of memory, not 1MB. at 1991, a computer with 1MB would have been be MUCH MORE expensive, and nobody would need 1MB with with everydays DOS-programs at this time. 🙂
does any body know what was the system they were running on it russian dos??!! or what?
To give some perspective the big laptop news of 1991 in America was the Apple Powerbook 170. This laptop had the following features:
Introduction Date: October 21, 1991
Processor Type: 68030
Processor Speed: 25 MHz
ROM Size: 1 MB
Data Path: 32-bit
Standard RAM: 4 MB
Maximum RAM: 8 MB
Standard Hard Drive: 40 MB, 80 MB
Built-in Display: 9.8″ Monochrome
Supported MacOS: 7.0.1-7.5.1,7.5.3-7.6.1
Dimensions: 2.25 x 11.25 x 9.3 2.
Avg. Weight: 6.8 lbs.
Original Price: $4600 US
In 1992 the, what I consider historic, IBM Thinkpad 700c was released:
Processor Type: 486 SLC
Processor Speed: 25 MHz
Graphics Type: VGA
Built In Display: 10.4″ TFT display with 640×480 resolution
Standard RAM: 4 MB
Maximum RAM: 8 MB
Standard Hard Drive: 120MB ESDI HDD
Original Price: $4350
These were top of the line models. There were cheaper laptops available at the time. In 1991 the overall median household income in the United States was $40,873. One of these computers was approximately 1/10th the median household income. Sorry I don’t have more time to find median personal income figures for the United States in 1991. Median household income data is from the US Census Bureau via Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States#Education_and_Gender
I don’t understand why the Russian responders are so upset by this post. I am an American, I had a laptop that looked almost EXACTLY like this one. This is what laptops looked like in the late 80’s and early 90’s
Can somebody help me? I want to buy it! please reply to gofsv@yahoo.com if you have some info..
живой блог прекрасный. так и дальше
Смотреть клипы, видео и всякую всячину
+1
The cost of such things wasn’t much cheaper in the US. And I would imagine that most of the ICs were of Russian origin, and semiconductor devices in Russia were very expensive to produce in that era.