Data General Corp. said Tuesday it has formed a joint venture to market its computers in the Soviet Union, one of a growing number of recent American- Soviet computer deals that reflect a major shift ...

We admire [Alex Studer’s] approach to schoolwork. His final assignment in his history class was to do an open-ended research project on any topic and — this is key — using any medium. He’d recently ...

*An article from sixteen years ago, but entropy requires no maintenance. "Make and take," comrade. During the Cold War scientific collaboration between the West and the Eastern-bloc countries was ...

A rare peek at personal computing behind the Iron Curtain. In the American mind, the Soviet Union in the Cold War era easily conjures images of stealthy submarines lurking in the deep, nuclear ...

In the white birch forests near this Siberian city, a special school is grooming the children who will carry the Soviet Union`s reputation for mathematics and physics into the 21st Century. But these ...

"Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise ...

There are plenty of bizarre computers around from the 70s through the 90s before the world somewhat standardized around various duopolies of hardware vendors and operating systems. Commodore, Atari, ...

Long before the World Wide Web, the Soviets tried to save the USSR with a computer network. Why did their project never make it? For 12 year-old Oleg Guimaoutdinov, learning to programme a computer in ...