Electronics 60

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Elektronika 60 main logic unit

The Elektronika 60 (Russian: Электроника 60 ) was a computer manufactured by the Soviet company Elektronika . In essence, it was a clone of the DEC LSI-11 .

Elektronika 60 was part of a computer complex that was housed in several parts in a rack. In addition to the main logic unit, a 15IE-00-013 terminal and various input / output devices belonged in the rack of the Elektronika 60.

The Russian programmer Alexei Paschitnow developed the original version of the video game classic Tetris on the Elektronika 60 in 1984 .

Technical specifications

  • Word length: 16 bit
  • Address space: 32K words (64 KB)
  • RAM: 4K words (8 kilobytes)
  • Number of commands: 81
  • Performance: 250,000 arithmetic operations per second
  • Floating point capacity: 32 bit
  • Number of VLSI chips: 5
  • Mainboard dimensions: 240 × 280 mm

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