Electronika 60
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 Electronika 60M | |
| Developer | Elektronika |
|---|---|
| Type | Minicomputer |
| Release date | 1978 |
| Discontinued | 1991 |
| Operating system | RT-11 and other |
| CPU | M2 (Soviet LSI-11--PDP-11 LSI CPU implementation--clone) |
| Memory | 4kb 16-bit words; max 32k 16-bit words |
The Electronika 60 (Russian: Электроника 60) is a computer made in the Soviet Union by Elektronika in Voronezh from 1978 until 1991. It is a rack-mounted system with no built-in display or storage devices. It was usually paired with a 15IE-00-013 terminal and I/O devices. The main logic unit is located on the M2 CPU board. As an unlicensed clone implementation of the DEC PDP-11/23, the Electronika 60 is generally software-compatible, could use much of the same peripherals, and physically resembles that model.
The original implementation of Tetris was written for the Electronika 60 by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985.[1] As the Electronika 60 does not have raster graphics, text characters were used to form the blocks.[2]
Technical specifications
[edit]M2 CPU:
- LSI-11 (PDP-11 LSI CPU implementation) clone
- Word length: 16 bits
- Address space: 32K words (64 KB)
- RAM size: 4K words (8 KB)
- Number of instructions: 81
- Performance: 250,000 operations per second
- Floating-point capacity: 32 bits
- Number of VLSI chips: 5
- Board dimensions: 240 × 280 mm
References
[edit]- ^ "Tetris | video game | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
- ^ Hoad, Phil (June 2, 2014). "Tetris: how we made the addictive computer game". The Guardian.
External links
[edit]- Article about Electronika-60 in Russian
- Images of the Electronika 60M
- Archive software and documentation for Soviet computers UK-NC, DVK and BK0010