The Alternative Party presents a showcase of old computer hardware (and new software for them) from the Soviet Union and East European countries, showing a rare glimpse of the unique computing culture that is very different from the corporate-driven, western hardware offerings. A show of unique styles of digital art, influenced by demo art and local computer hobbyist cliques, with a distinct Eastern flavour.

1. Digital resistance: the non-compromising attitude of East European demo art JariJaanto Visa-ValtteriPimiä ALTERNATIVE PARTY

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9. Alternative Party “Alternative Party is a festival of digital culture and a demoparty which gathers together creative people of all kinds: visualists, musicians, designers, programmers, researchers, passionate enthusiasts and people like you and me.” “One aim of Alternative Party is to bring demos and digital culture to the masses and bring masses to demos and digital culture. We also like to see tolerance and equality - and we like to see forerunners and pioneers as part of the community today.”

10. AltParty imports people into digital culture from the world. AltParty exports change from digital culture to the world! DIGITAL CULTURE Change Change WORLD

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13. M-1 электронно-вычислительная машина The first computer made in the Soviet Union Developed during 1950-1951 In operation from 1952 One of the first computers thatstored programs in memory Memory: 512 of 25bit words(24 bits for value, 1 bit for sign) Speed: 20 instructions per second Power consumption 8kW

14. Сетунь The only Trinary computerever produced Trits: -, 0, + For scientific research 50 produced during 1959-1965 Speed: 200kHz or 4500op/s Second model: Сетунь-70 produced in 1970

15. Аргон-16 Used in: Союз, Прогресс, МИР, Салют 1974-2010 Triple computer Addition: 5 ms, multiplication: 45 ms RAM: 3x 2KB, ROM: 3x 16KB Data rate: up to 80,000 Kbps

16. Микро-80 Processor: K580IK80A or KR580VM80A (i8080 clone) Memory: 64KB RAM, 2KB ROM Keyboard: 61 keys Output Device: Television with 64x32 textmode External storage: cassette recorder (1500 bps) Schematics published in magazine “Радио” 1983 200 parts, which were really hard to find Parts sold in black market Only couple actually made by hobbyists

17. Электроника БК 1985 “Official” Home computer in mass production CPU: K1801VM1 (PDP-11 based)- 3MHz (BK-0010), - 4.6MHz (BK-0011), - 4MHz (BK-0011M) Memory: 32KB 512x256 1 color,256x256 4 colors

18. Электроника БК

19. Электроника БК

20. Радио 86РК 1986 from the magazine “Радио” 29 components CPU: K580IK80 or KR580VM80 (i8080 clone) RAM: 16-32KB, ROM: 2 KB Video: 64x25 textmode Lot’s of variants and pheripicals built. Also an graphic adapter exists

21. Радио 86РК

22. УКНЦ 1987 for educational purposes CPU: 2 × KM1801VM2 @8Mhz (PDP-11 based) RAM: 192KB, ROM: 32KB 640×288 8 colors

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24. Вектор-06Ц 1987 KR580VM80A @3 MHz (i8080 clone) RAM: 64KB 256x256 / 16 colors512x256 / 4 colors256x256 & 512x256 / 1 color 256 color palette Sound: KR580VI53, Soviet cloneof Intel 8253 timer.

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26. Вектор-06Ц

27. Клоны ZX Spectrum Spectrum machines were bought from the west and contrabanded to east By 1984 schematics were available but not the parts First clone was built on 1985 No such thing as “copyright” existed New features and peripherals were made Spectrum clones were the dominant platform of almost all east european countries Still being produced in russia

28. Клоны ZX Spectrum

29. DDR: Robotron

30. Jugoslavia: Galaksija

31. Пентагон Most widespread spectrum clone CPU: КР1858ВМ1/3, Т34ВМ1, Z80A, B, H @ 3.5 MHz Memory: 48KB – 1MB Пентагон-48K (1989) – Without Beta 128 Disk Interface Пентагон-128K (1991) - Without AY-3-8910 Пентагон-128K 2+ (1991) - With AY-3-8910 at obscure speed of 3.5 MHz Пентагон-128K 3 + (1993) Pentagon-1024SL v1.x (2005) Pentagon-1024SL v2.x (2006) - 7Mhz Pentagon ver.2.666 (2009) - an experimental model with a Z80-compatible core T80 (at a frequency of 28 MHz)

32. Пентагон

33. Demoscene First demos in Poland & Czechoslovakia People did not know anything about the western world’s demoscene and did their own hacks Spectrum clones as the main platform Amiga demos were spread by VHS tapes First Russian demoparty in 1995 with 200 participants

37. Demoshow A selection of Spectrum demos for Pentagon compatible computers COME TO SEE THEM LIVE @ ALTERNATIVE PARTY 2011: 21.-23.10. @ CABLE FACTORY HELSINKI

38. Links http://www.altparty.org/pubwiki/Soviet_tech_links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_computer_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_BK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_(computer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKNC ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector-06C http://15kop.ru/ - museum of Soviet coin-op arcade games (both digital and analog) http://www.computer-museum.ru/index.php - also includes information on space and military computers http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/soviet.html - museum of Soviet calculators http://www.mustekala.info/node/921 - brief history of Russian speccydemoscene by elfh/inward

39. Thanks! JariJaanto http://jaan.to/ Visa-ValtteriPimiä http://www.low.fi/~visy www.altparty.org Greetings to viznut^PwP & Britelite^DKD