Robotron K8911 | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1981
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: UA880
- RAM: 1 KB
- Connectors/Ports: Serial , keyboard, printer
- Monitor: Monochrome
- Keyboard: Yes
The Robotron K8911 is a Soviet-era computer, developed in the early 1980s by the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics. Based on the Ural-2 computer, it had the design for use in industrial and scientific applications.
The K8911 featured a 32-bit architecture and had a clock speed of 8 MHz. It had 64 KB of RAM and 512 KB of ROM. The computer also had several peripheral ports, including a parallel port, serial port, and a cassette tape drive port. It could also be connected to a wide range of external devices, such as oscilloscopes and voltmeters, through its analog and digital I/O ports.
The K8911 ran the KSM operating system, which was a Soviet-developed variant of the UNIX operating system. The computer was capable of running both high-level languages, such as FORTRAN and BASIC, as well as assembly language.
The production of the K8911 was discontinued in the early 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the advent of more advanced computers, but some of them still being used today.
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The history of personal computers
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