Russian "Photoshop" circa 1980

[d-null]

[Slutboat]

I gave it 8 seconds of my life, I want them back.

[d-null]

I gave it 8 seconds of my life, I want them back.

it's not supposed to be exciting, it just shows the very early technology in it's infancy on very large computers at the time, this was pretty amazing technology at that time

[Paul&John]

Damn that's pretty impressive for 1980...

[Highest Def]

it's not supposed to be exciting, it just shows the very early technology in it's infancy on very large computers at the time, this was pretty amazing technology at that time

Yeah. That was pretty interesting even without understanding the narrator. I knew 3 words.. mosaic, command and photograph. Imagine how much that computer cost

[Davy]

Pretty cool technology.

[frankee]

state of the art tech

[seeandsee]

they had it all, in that yr such tehnology, well it is nice

[Roby]

great technology !

[slavdogg]

that is pretty cool

[GetSCORECash]

So was this prior to the quantel paint box, with an 80 Meg drive that was 4 feet by 2 feet?

[greg80]

the need for socialist propaganda makes you invent incredible things all with goal of lying to people

[Antonio]

That reminds me of the first ever computer that I saw - I was still in school and they took us on a tour to a facility with like 10-20 computers, each of them probably weighing a ton and using that paper with the funny holes...

[2MuchMark]

I love old tech. I don't k now why but reel to reel computer storage devices always interest me. Maybe its because they were in all my favourite sci-fi flicks as a kid (Colossus: The Forbin Project, 6 Million Dollar Man, etc).

Cool video, thanks for sharing!

[2MuchMark]

That reminds me of the first ever computer that I saw - I was still in school and they took us on a tour to a facility with like 10-20 computers, each of them probably weighing a ton and using that paper with the funny holes...

You mean punch cards:



When I was in high school in the early 80's, the TRS-80 was just making its way into our school but we still had Terminals connected to an HP2000 mainfraim. One of the computer classes taught punhcards, even though we had no punchcard reader or puncher (whatever it was called). So we had to make the holes in the cards by poking it with a pencil. The teacher would then hold up the cards to the light to see if we punched the right holes or not. LAME.

[GatorB]

Yeah. That was pretty interesting even without understanding the narrator. I knew 3 words.. mosaic, command and photograph. Imagine how much that computer cost

In Russia? Probably 2 cows and 8 cases of Vodka.

[ottopottomouse]

Impressive for 30 years ago

[Hentaikid]

That's pretty good, it doesn't look like he's retouching it manuallly so it could be like the content aware filters photoshop is coming up with now. Of course they probably just cut out the 120 hours of pixel pushing, but you never know with Russians...

[Tjeezers]

Nice share, thank you!

[CaptainHowdy]

Stalin invented "photochop" as it is...

[d-null]

Stalin invented "photochop" as it is...

Nikolai Yezhov, the young man walking with Stalin in the top photo from the 1930s, was shot in 1940. Following his death, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet censors. Such retouching was a common occurrence during Stalin's rule.

[woj]

cool stuff

[madawgz]

looks complicated

[bronco67]

I'm sure that somehow this technology was a precursor to stealing credit card numbers.

[Agent 488]

In Soviet Russia, Photoshop Photoshops you.

[quiet]

very cool.

[alias]

Nikolai Yezhov, the young man walking with Stalin in the top photo from the 1930s, was shot in 1940. Following his death, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet censors. Such retouching was a common occurrence during Stalin's rule.

Interesting.

[Magix]

Interesting.

and you have Lenin and Stalin and a lot of other people photshoped like that

[ottopottomouse]

Nikolai Yezhov, the young man walking with Stalin in the top photo from the 1930s, was shot in 1940. Following his death, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet censors. Such retouching was a common occurrence during Stalin's rule.

That's taking censorship a bit harshly.