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How it was in Ryazan
Alone Coder

   To the Ryazan technological cluster in
Soviet times included many enterprises
different profile:
   -Ryazan Machine Tool Plant
(now there are at least two
various machine tool enterprises, ra─
working clearly not at full capacity)
   -Ryazan Counting and Analytical Plant
machines (after a long period of suspended animation, recently os─
voil production of new cash registers)
   -Ryazan Instrument Plant (service─
there are no military orders, including ours
RKB "Globus" )
 -Ryazan Television Plant (also
associated with it, produced portable teles─
"Sapphire" visors, including color ones)
   -Ryazan Radio Plant (no longer available for 10 years
new products, there are some radios left─
stations for the military)
   -Ryazan Electronic Devices Plant
("Light Bulb", on his bones now LLC 
"EVP", which claims to still be de─
radio tubes bark)
   -Ryazan metal-ceramic plant
devices(RZMKP, at one time one of the most popular 
world's leading manufacturers of reed switches,
also involved in solar energy)
   - plant"Red Banner" (produces those─
process equipment)
   -Ryazan Capacitor Plant
 and many others, as well as:
   -Ryazan Polytechnic College
(previously Ryazan Electrovacuum Technology─
godfather, nowRyazan College of Electronics) 
 -Ryazan Radio Engineering Institute
("Radik", now a university)
 -Research Institute of Gas Discharge Devices (NIIGRP,
"Plasma", they made lasers and plasma films─
ospreys)
   -Research and technological development─
Institute(NITI, specialized in 
development and production of analytical
ultra-high vacuum equipment─
tools for analyzing the chemical composition of the mate─
rials, studying physical and chemical properties
surfaces of solids, obtaining thin
films and heterostructures representing
interest for microelectronics).

 NITI is a huge and mysterious place,
whose history is nowhere to be found. Was somehow
connected in a way withNIIGRP, "Lamp" and
RZMKP - they say that there was one association,
even with a common newspaper.
   Evil Zloevich says that approximately
in1989, when he was 12 years old, he
went to thisTHREADS and showed some computers─
yuters, called "Electronics". He do─
It seems that they were developing or even producing there─
drove microcircuits.
   Maxim Mitkin (Cyberdaemon) agrees─
is aware of the possibility of this and writes:
 "I know exactly what they came up with and de─
all sorts of things were thrown. I was there in 1994
when I was in collegeelectronics
on an excursion. At that time, NITI was almost
died - there were many empty workshops, and themselves
workers said that it wouldn't be long until they left─
elk and everyone will be dismissed."
KSA-7G remembersNIIGRP:
 "This is the one next to the college
it was - on the other side of the highway (with underground─ 
by crossing the road, from the building at─ 
mooing towards college). So me too, example─ 
but then, I was there on an excursion, no longer 
I remember exactly what year, and we still have lasers 
showed holograms, and also for the first time─ 
working with color active plasma 
screen - square shape, with a diagonal, 
probably only seven inches and no noise─ 
tan spots - due to imperfection (heaps 
interference/wires to matrix controllers) 
design of that time - as they explained to us. 
But I remember how excited I was by that colored one 
pictures of how I dreamed of having a computer 
showed it like that..." 
   In placeNITI (or its foundations but─
cases) are now huge furniture
shops.  There is only a small one left
enterprise,producing gas analyzers.
   Plasma screen technology sold
either the Japanese or the Koreans, before ours
it never reached the telezavod, telezavod
bankrupt. Installer with "Globe" Roma
Borisov, at that time associated withTeleza─ 
with water, clarifies that the plant was bankrupted by the spe─
cially, this was not related to its capabilities
news.

Slash_AtD: 
 I was also in Yuzhny, not far from my home─
MA VNIIMS (All-Union Scientific Research Institute)
Alsky and Design Institute for Organization─
rations, economics and technology material-
technical supply for farmers─
stva). Since 1992, the institute has been located in
run by the Russian Academy of Agriculture
hard sciences, implementing fundamental
and applied scientific research on samples─
problems of logistics and agrochemistry─
chemical support for agriculture
production, design and implementation
technology systems, machines and equipment by
cargo processing of material resources,
supplied to villages, market research about─
products for production and technical purposes─
learning in agro-industrial complex using information technology
but-computer technologies.
 I studied there in grades 10-11 (93-94)
profession "computer operator". At this institute
there were a colossal number of powerful computers─
yuters old and new at that time:
Robotrons, Sparks (monochrome digger -
it wassomething!! with something), IBM 386, 486,
on the second floor there were computers─
lexes that occupied several rooms─
nat!! Everything was humming and noisy. A pile of punched cards,
films, floppy disks 5.25", hmm... it was too much─
extremely interesting. They taught us there
fundamentals of computer science.

   In1986 the magazine "Radio" published
circuits and firmware of the computer "Radio-8bRK"
on the KPS8ОВМ80А processor (i8080 compat─
ible). The computer instantly got pop─
rity both among radio amateurs and
among industrial enterprises that are
connections with perestroika moved to full
self-financing.  Released in subsequent years
many computers on a similar circuit─
meh, the most famous of them was probably
"Mikrosha". 
 Ryazan Counting and Analytical Plant
machines (CAM) did not stand aside in1987 
year mastered the production of compatible com─
Computer "Partner"01.01".
   At the same time, inRyazan Radio Engineering─
Com Institute at the Faculty of Design
radio equipment (RFE) is being createdSKB
"Design", which writes software for Radio-8bRK
and "Partner". About the high level of programming─
Comrade, none of which has been discussed so far
nothing is known ( Bony and SDN - if it
from there), they say the games "Zmeya", "Volcano"
and "Press"(1986-1987). These programs can be
find on the websiterk86.ru. Apparently on─
only the firmware of the game is always lost
slot machine with two games - “Treasure” and “Labi─
rint", which at one time stood inDK Nef─ 
Tyanikov, not far from the institute. Very ve─
it is likely that the same people made that machine gun.

   This is where the story begins.

                  * * *

   My father, Mikhail Viktorovich Bystrov,
worked at RZMKP as deputy head
plating shop, since1991 - and to─
chief. In anotherdepartment worked (and before
still working) my mother, Bystrova Na─
Talya Vasilievna. Neighbor on the floor above, Zorin 
Alexander Vasilievich, worked at the plant 
SAM. My father was fond of soldering electronic devices.
triples according to schemes from magazines (for example,
automatic device for photo development─
tographies). Neighbor too.
   I also leafed through these magazines ("Radio",
"Model designer", about computers─
lo still in"Science and Life"), but in his youth
I didn’t understand anything there. The desire to have a com─
I got my computer at the end of1988,
when the magazine"Murzilka" offered to choose
a New Year's gift with this option. B
at that time"Murzilka" was just engaged in co─
computer education in the form of comics
("Edik, Vasya, Misha - abbreviated as EVM"). And I
studied in first grade.

KSA-7G: 
   Around the same years I also read something
about computers and programs in the magazines "Young 
Technician", but didn’t really know anything, that is 
I didn’t realize what I read because there wasn’t much 
understood this, andlittle was written. 
   I wasn't into it at all back then and
I didn’t even dream about it, due to misunderstanding, 
lack of awareness and inaccessibility. And even 
when in the same years, probably in1990,I saw─ 
business Spectrum (as I understand now, but then 
I didn’t even know the name) at a classmate’s house─ 
ka, I saw cassettes with turbo loading, magni─ 
recorder with tape counter, errors/glitches and ne─ 
rewind with repeat loading, manual 
joystick, gamesEXOLON, Bruce Lee,several 
program outlines (from a book) in BASIC, 
I still didn’t understand all this! After all, I 
this was not the case, and I understood, with my level 
life, that won't happen, it's useless about it 
dream and ask adults (they don’t pay much─ 
fought, unlike the father of a classmate), 
that's why I tried not to notice it/not me─ 
read about it/unavailable. Although I understood 
that this is something unusual and interesting, 
that you can play great...Friend's father─ 
a classmate somewhere through connections got a payment 
(possibly on velvet - I barely remember it), 
soldered the case from circuit boards, power supply, subs─ 
went to my color TV... Then 
Only a few masters were capable of this, and 
very wealthy people, or people with 
connections... Therefore, despite some 
notes in journals, and a single visit 
friend with his computer (I visited himrarely, 
but I remember the computer only once, perhaps it 
burned out quickly...), I was almost not interested 
computers and almost didn’t think about them - like 
everything dear and inaccessible. 
   And a real breakthrough into the world of computers took place─
came for me only at the end of the first year 
college when I started practicing 
Partners in BASIC, when I accidentally died 
my/brother's programmable microcalculator 
Electronics MKb1, and I, missing the program─ 
roving, bought a 48th Spectrum from a classmate. 
   And when I was with you, I remember that you
told a little something like that 
your father worked in electronics - how 
since that's why you have boxes and boxes of de─ 
the waistcoats remained, and that he gave you the Spectrum 
soldered. Then I envied you in my heart, 
remembering my classmate - who─ 
Rogo had a similar situation. 
   I have no complaints against my father, that he
Could you buy me a computer or something else? 
We are three children in the family, and so - as best I could─ 
or so they lived, and he earned money as best he could─ 
shouted, and again, the father spoke several times 
showed an important key concern: on birthdays─ 
niya bought a micro calculator for my brother (which 
practically only I used it myself 
learned to program), and for me - a car─ 
ticket with sound control (AZU, breakdown 
which served as an additional incentive 
master electronics - in order to repair the electronics), 
tester (main measuring instrument─ 
nt),electronic laboratory (practised─ 
with diagrams), color music (practised 
with assembly), paid for some shortages 
then details, helped with some tools─ 
cops and magazines, and some const─ 
handlers (electromagnetic, radio), 
He probably bought it too. Father brought the AZU/ 
gave it to me, a schoolboy from Tula (there is this game─ 
the handgun was released): reacts to sharp sounds 
- screams, whistles, claps, including a couple─ 
reacted positively to impacts/collisions with 
obstacles;  while sequentially 
switched modes in a circle - stop, back 
with a turn, stop, forward with a flashing light and si─ 
Renoy; the rear lights were on when I stopped; styles─ 
designed as some kind of ambulance hybrid, but painted 
red with the inscription "01" - fire type 
car. 

   Around1989, a neighbor showed his father
homemade Radio-8bRK, which he assembled
in half of a chessboard with keys
from "Partner".  My father got excited about the idea of his own─
the army is the same. He's already got a huge
number of different microcircuits and pro─
sneeze radioelements, but he had no wasps─
Cillograph for debugging. How much of a pony am I─
I think this was all being debugged at a neighbor’s place. One day
he brought a huge oscilloscope to us.
   In1990 the computer was ready. In ka─
used again as a keyboard─
ki keys from "Partner",each consisting
from many details. As a magnet─
background was a radio tape recorder "Romantic" with
two-speed 4-track reel-to-reel
drive. As a monitor - black and white
TV.
   We had a lot of games and also a language
BASIC and programs written in it. Would─
there are several books about radio engineering, micro─
calculators (two had a programmable one)
brother Andrey), computer Radio-8bRK
and the BASIC language. Over time, my father even soldered
device to load BASIC from ROM
instead of tape.
   Particularly interesting were “Treasure”, “Forest─
tnitsa-1" and text games "President" and 
"Oregon Trail".  I even figured out how 
play "Oregon Trail" on paper with
cube and played in the village with my sisters─
Roy Tanya. The notebook with these notes is preserved─
was lost, and she, along with a thousand others, was exhausted─
Louisa photographed the ric papers.

               At this time:

   In1990, the cooperative "Drop" from Ryaz─
nor publishes advertisements for programming services
knowledge of ROM, including computers, combined─
steamed from "ZX-Spectrum", and their DOS ROMs, they
do they sell a kit for assembling the controller?
floppy drive for CP/M on VG93 or 8272 (Radio
1990-07 79).

   Around1990 (according to Pasha Yulin,
now the installer at"Globe") is starting
act Ryazan radio market for dance─
site in the central park of culture and
recreation near the radio institute. Where before
did you get the details? Presumably, they dragged it with
factories. In addition, there was a radio party─
fighters.  Many remember the old guru Yuri
Ivanovich, also known to Slash for 
nickname "Samodelkin" (identification about─
I drive to the address - an old house near the square. Mi─
churina). Once in1999 I was there with
Dissonator, I don’t remember for what reason. 
From radio amateurs we got "communism"
"chelic" approach to the exchange of parts and devices─
themselves: “I don’t need it, take it, but take care of it─
Ro, don’t break it or throw it away.”

Dmitry Devyatkin: 
   Afterwards I talked with some other repairman─
no one living on Polevaya in a private house, 
behind the ambulance station. Seems to have come out 
to him through Denis(Ed.: seller, so─
aka Carson, with hard to read─
mi and sometimes bent floppy disks, about him
Cyberdaemon and Slay even wrote a mini-demo 
fakie). The repairman was a drinker, disabled,
but he knew how to repair hard drives for PCs and 
resolder power stabilizers on the mat─ 
markets tomato. 
   The repairman's name was Yuri Ivanovich. I'm with him
I met after the Spectrum, somehow 
came to him with the topic of repairing motherboards and 
hard drives. I then assembled PCs for friendscustom-made and often needed to be repaired. Rather 
In total, through him I bought myself a Pentagon-128 
in a gray case with two disk drives - this is 
It was already for pampering. Then he approached me─ 
drove an ATM-Turbo for a friend. That is, he was 
although he’s a huckster, he’s somehow connected with the show─ 
room party. It was already at the beginning 
two thousandth. 

Cyberdaemon: 
In 1989 incentral department store
(nowTD Bars), on the ground floor, under the es─ 
calator, there were cooperators with three Atari
and three Soviet color TVs. The same
it was in the children's world on Sobornaya Street. Maybe
I didn’t see where else they stood. These two places
at that time were the most popular and visited─
able. The price tag is the same - 1 rub. in 10 minutes
games. Prizes were sometimes given for records - more
play a little... They disappeared somewhere during─
slightly in1992year (inBarca). B1991v 
Children's world computers appeared
slot machines - real American
"one-armed bandit." It’s money, of course,
brought more.
 At the same time, in DP-4 (Dashkovo-Pesochnya,
4th microdistrict), in a completely ridiculous room─
NII, there was a table with one monitor and od─
with Spectrum. They played mainly in
R-Type. 
Next door there wasPioneer House(now
this is a house of children's creativity). I went there
at the programming club - taught BASIC
on computers Partner 01.01V3.Visited with 
1990 to 1992.Then they bought me the first one
"Sinclair",and I stopped going there. Now 
there is no programming circle there.
Back in1990or1991in the cinema
"Motherland"there were some Soviet computers,
there were a lot of them - about ten. But to the people
for some reason there was little there. I was only there
once.
 There were companies in the 90s that recorded
on cassette games for the Spectrum.The best part─ 
lar place was here:
https://goo.gl/PЗFtrF
 Directory therewas a little over a hundred
games. It was replenished, but very slowly. When─
working principle: you bring them a clean cassette and
choose games. A few days later...
turn around, pick up your cassette from already
recorded games and pay for them. Here
I don't remember the prices.
 There were slot machines there too, inside
which was something Sinclair-compatible
judging by the games. I didn’t write anything there myself─
shaft. It turned out that it was very easy and fast─
tro found new acquaintances with the Spectrum and
just exchanged games. In my collection
there were almost 90 cassettes. I knew a guy who had
whose nickname was"one hundred and forty cassette player"
- that's how many cassettes he had.