"I was a lucky guy and I had this one (exactly this particular model) - made in Japan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: "

"lucky" that you owned $50 piece of electronic equipment? that quote exactly proves Rochard's point... :2 cents:

jesus rochard. just watch the movie rocky 4. OK?

:1orglaugh

No brainwashed because an topic that might even be remotely involving Russia you come in blasting with your typical Russia good USA bad propaganda..

First of all it was equal to about $500, but not $50 in the USSR. And yes, I was lucky to own it in the early 80's when the one was unable to just enter the shop and buy a new Japanese toy. It was the Soviet Union - not Russia.

Like our god CurrentlySobber suggests, I'll drop a pile at your post and at you propaganda. I've just posted the personal experience of 80's. You may consider it a Zionist propaganda or whatever, I don't care.

This is the kind of stuff I was looking for.... Amazing.

But could they?

When I grew up in the 1980s I was told Russia had stores with bare shelves. They couldn't keep the population in bread. But were they able to import electronics from Japan?

In 80s I had this one (it's still somewhere in the closet):

https://cdn.rbth.com/980x-/all/2014/0406/35711/4.jpg

I still don't think the US guys can understand the USSR life of 80's. Those are clips of Soviet cosmic tale for kids of 1974:







Those ones of are from another kid movie of 1974:





A movie from 1981:





That's not about the technology. That;s about to feel those times. If you think that Soviet people were so different than people on the West, you are completely wrong.

https://omonkrivomazovra.files.wordp...423-121201.jpg

I didn't read Pelevin. Would you recommend him and why?

Those computers were more fun, or so my biased childhood memory tells me :thumbsup