Who can explain Russian technology in the 1980s?
 

I just watched a show about technology in the 1980s - the Sony walkman, computers, microwaves, etc....

Was technology in Russia the same in the 1980s? When did Russians get the Walkman, arcade games, CDs, home computers, etc.....

Just curious.

I miss the 80's... I was running a two node BBS. Learned to program, crack, and did some intros/demos with EagleSoft Inc., Fairlight, Razor1911, and Angels/Defjam.

Google banned you?:winkwink:

https://www.google.ru/search?q=&#108...w=1280&bih=800

Nope, not the same :2 cents:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...oplada_MIR.jpg

It probably took them a couple of years, but they definitely had it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGtDI68kFAo

Sony just released this in Russia a few months ago. Lines around the block.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...e92a416b8c.jpg

how was american tech in the 80-s?

did they manage to make a walkman or did sony have to do it for them? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Panasonic just released this in the States:

http://cheryldrake_1.tripod.com/site...g.w560h420.jpg

The happy customers:





I love the American shopping videos - they make this world better :thumbsup

The UK peeps rule too, because the taste of Chinese dream is priceless ;)

wasn't a lot of it blocked in the 80s?

edit: blocked or they had their own versions?

:1orglaugh

Why Russia? Did the media whisper 'Russia... Russiaaa....' in your ear, like they do here in Europe? So now your subconscious is all of a sudden thinking about Russia.

Weird thread.

Yes, HIGHLY ADVANCED :1orglaugh

http://blog.onlineclock.net/wp-conte...tube-clock.jpg


Ronald Reagan and his Star Wars has to strike the "Evil Empire" first and start the US Debt Mountain we have added to every day since ...

I see where you're going with this and I agree.

They get their technology mysteriously after the US invents it. So does China.

Actually that's a grammar school basics that vacuum tubes are unaffected by EMP. I'm surprised it took so long for the CIA imbeciles to figure that out :upsidedow

No kidding, I knew that since I was a kid.

https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress....tube.jpg?w=800

When I was kid, I remember my mother brought me bag full of toys from Russia. They were pretty advanced at the time and very interesting although most of them were related to military (at least in that package I've got). I can clearly remember some kind of lunokhod that was going around the room on batteries.

You are misunderstanding me... I don't want to read an article about this. I want to get a feel for what happened in the 1980s in Russia with technology - For example, when did they get the "walkman" or something similar, and how common was it?

After thinking about this last night, I am also interested in how technology expanded in Europe during the same time.

See, that's the kind of stuff that I was looking for.

Seems Russian commercials were about just as horrible as they were in the US in the 1980s.

No, not at all. In fact, you can argue a lot of the tech the general public had in the 1980s came from Japan. Namely Sony.

This isn't a "US vs Russia" thing, more about how technology advanced in different parts of the world.

What "article" are you talking about? He just gave you a link to Google images for "Soviet electronics" (record players, console games, TV's etc). I can tell you that Soviet TV's of 80's were much worse than the Japanese ones, but definitely not worse than those made in the USA - same shit, different names.

I fucking LOVE these things.... I've been looking at buying some. I think they are cool as hell.

This is why so many US Americans apply every year to immigrate to Russia :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Ever been to Brighton Beach in New York? :1orglaugh

I'm guessing that they got this tech around the same time we did. If we could buy it, why not Russians?

yea, leaders in space technology didn't even have a working "GPS" system till like 10 years ago... :1orglaugh

We have no GPS. Our system is called GLONASS. Course your space technology was much better - just go and compare two lists. Merica!

A lot of them working as expats here. Others like Snowden just hiding of your government. FYI: Russia is not a very friendly place for immigrants. You will die before you get even a tourist visa. For example, I need just to submit an online form and visit the US embassy to get a visa for 5 years which will be renewed automatically (I don't even have to visit your embassy every time when my 5 year old visa expires). Now go try to get a Russian visa and tell us your success story ;)

That's a place of Russian Jews that have immigrated in the early 80's, because only Jews there allowed to leave Soviet Union. So now Brighton Beach is a "Small Israel" in the NYC also know as "Judeo-Russian mafia". A normal person would newer visit that criminal hole.

I get it Russia Good America Bad.

Truthfully, I don't give a fuck so long as we are not in a shooting war.
I wonder how much money was spent in preparation of that war in the past 50 years?

Unfortunately BOTH the Russian and US Governments, and their military-industrial complexes, have profited by creating conflict -- at their peoples' expense. Mind-fuck pseudo war threats :2 cents:

All out wars are not survivable -- anyone with any education knows that.

Did the USA invent Internet porn? Thanks Bill :)

But that's part of my question.... I am a typical American who was under the impression that the average Russian grocery stores couldn't keep basic staples in stock no less did they have access to electronics. Is this true, or did the average fifteen year old in 1984 have their own Walkman or something similar?

it was a status symbol... so while kids in the US were buying a car with the $$ they earned during their part time job during the summer break... kids in poorer countries were buying a pair of jeans or a walkman thinking they are ballers... :error

An average fifteen year old had no own Walkman in 1984. A Soviet-made cassette record player, a vinyl player or even studio-like reel tape recorder - yes, but not Walkman. Those where not produced in the USSR in 1984, so they were rare and very expensive toys from Japan. The toys you can't buy in the regular market.

The typical music players available in the USSR:

http://ru.fishki.net/picsw/102012/04...tofon-0003.jpg

http://smotriinfo.net/wp-content/upl...da102s_694.jpg

http://www.savok.org/uploads/posts/2...wesna202fr.jpg

http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/00/mg_kat...r_mk106_02.jpg

http://img11.nnm.me/6/9/1/6/8/b82d01...77d809bd05.jpg

http://img13.nnm.me/e/b/d/0/3/01dc41...0a607d9cd5.jpg

http://i.otzovik.com/2013/05/26/438771/img/1955821.jpg


Here is first commercial Soviet VHS player (serial production started in 1982) - actually a copy of the Japanese one:

http://img1.joyreactor.cc/pics/comme...A-1461629.jpeg

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

http://wikiboombox.com/tiki-download...d=1049&display

I crack up everytime I see these topics.. cyberseo is such a brainwashed tool..

Brainwashed because I had a Japan-made Panasonic boombox? Oh, well then, looking to hear that you a non-brainwashed tool will tell me about the country where I was born and grown up, please continue your speech, professor :upsidedow

I blocked him so I can't see his posts.

I'm sure he is talking about how great their space program is. The US has a rover on Mars for years now and a probe at Jupiter's moons and he is still raving about a space station - which the US did in the 1970s. Yawn.

Клоун, ты бы открыл таки посты и посмотрел ответ на свой же тупой вопрос из первых рук. Кто, если не я тебе расскажет как оно было на самом деле, марина?



Да еще и трусливые как бабы, "морская пехота блеать" - в случае барагоза вы ведь и дня не продержитесь ("I blocked him" - я щас заплачу просто)...



Куй с ней, с арматурой, но лом (ЛОМ БЛЕАТЬ!) Эти пацаны вас - морских кроликов за минуту на половой орган намотают.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...novation#1980s

10 Cold War Weapons That Terrified U.S. Military Intelligence

Computers in the USSR: A story of missed opportunities | Russia Beyond The Headlines

Immediately after World War II Stalin’s government began to recognize the need to achieve a technical breakthrough in industry and science as the burgeoning Cold War required the mobilization of the nation’s intellectual resources.

By the early 1950s the USSR had established a modern computer industry. However, by the beginning of the 1970s, the Soviet government decided to put a stop to these unique developments and resolved to pirate copies of Western systems instead. As a result, an entire industry’s progress was halted.

Absolutely correct. Don't know where you've got it, but that's a 100% correct information on Soviet computer technologies - they were halted after the "Elbrus" success, the breakthroughs of the Soviet IT were halted and the inventors were continue to working with the US. E.g Piontkowski - the author of Intel Pentium CPU technology.

Most of those items we're made by the japanese..... Russians probably had access to...:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Found it here :2 cents: :thumbsup

Computers in the USSR: A story of missed opportunities | Russia Beyond The Headlines

"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.

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