The Commissar’s first laptop

[by j.d.]

He designed his first propaganda poster with this; lo, those many moons ago.

The Commissar's first laptop

This is first Russian laptop, made under the brand “Elektronika”. The production started in 1991 and lasted not very long due to the high price of the device - none of the common people could afford themselves such devices. The price for the computer was around $6000, that equals 25,000 roubles according to that time’s exchange rate, when the average salary across the country was 500 roubles (50 times less!).

Common man. Bah!

Comments

  1. commissar wrote:

    Actually, this was my first laptop portable computer. :)

    Posted 22 Aug 2006 at 8:58 pm

  2. j.d. wrote:

    How much would you say that sucker weighed?

    Posted 22 Aug 2006 at 9:18 pm

  3. sockpuppet in traini wrote:

    Hehe I like the handle. If someone mothballed one of these suckers for their grandkids, I bet the 2100 edition of Antiques Roadshow would say it is worth a pretty penny.

    Posted 22 Aug 2006 at 11:51 pm

  4. BloodSpite wrote:

    Reminds of the IBM “Luggable”. Sucker weighed over 20 pounds.

    Posted 25 Aug 2006 at 1:47 pm

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