Re: [tlug] East German computing [was: Re: Linux 7 year ago?]

[Ian Barwick <barwick@example.com>]

2009/12/22 Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 07:17:57PM +0900, Henri Servomaa wrote:
>> On Dec 21, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Christian Horn wrote:
>>
>> > My first system was a KC 85/3, East Germanys Z80 clones.  They were
>> > produced directly in my hometown, Muehlhausen.
>>
>> East Germany!??!
>> Holy cow, I drove a Peugeot504 to Berlin right after the wall came down....
>> And that's a LONG TIME ago...
>
> About right time for me to have seen socialist life and then
> having doors opening for the real world :)

I was in Berlin at the end of 1991 as an impoverished student with an
illegally-let apartment to "furnish" and got wind of an "end of era"
sale of government surplus stuff in the former Stasi HQ. Among the
many bargains was a Robotron PC clone which I was very tempted by, but
practical considerations got in the way. (I did acquire a nice flag of
the sort meant for hanging on the side of the building which made a
useful curtain). I have acquired a few GDR computer handbooks along
the way though.

Ian Barwick