Electronika_60

Electronika 60

Electronika 60

Soviet micro-computer


The Electronika 60 (Russian: Электроника 60) is a computer made in the Soviet Union by Elektronika in Voronezh from 1978 until 1991. It is a rack-mounted system with no built-in display or storage devices. It was usually paired with a 15IE-00-013 terminal and I/O devices. The main logic unit is located on the M2 CPU board.

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The original implementation of Tetris was written for the Electronika 60 by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985.[1] As the Electronika 60 does not have raster graphics, text characters were used to form the blocks.[2]

Technical specifications

M2 CPU:

  • LSI-11 (PDP-11 LSI CPU implementation) clone
  • Word length: 16 bits
  • Address space: 32K words (64 KB)
  • RAM size: 4K words (8 KB)
  • Number of instructions: 81
  • Performance: 250,000 operations per second
  • Floating-point capacity: 32 bits
  • Number of VLSI chips: 5
  • Board dimensions: 240 × 280 mm

References

  1. "Tetris | video game | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  2. Hoad, Phil (June 2, 2014). "Tetris: how we made the addictive computer game". The Guardian.



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