#soviet technology

Soviet CCCP one way call Phone

BelOMO Vilia, my latest major thrift store find.

I think I saw this camera for the first time a couple of months ago. I was immediately taken by its boxy shape that, quite frankly, is an offense to ergonomics, but makes my brain all warm and fuzzy. There were several of varying quality available but sadly, I didn’t have money to even consider buying one.

But now that I have an actual paying job, I went back and low and behold, there was one left. I have no idea if I overpaid but I don’t really care. I just love this thing. The feeling of the lever to slide the film forward is just something I can’t even describe. I don’t even want to take pictures, I just want to work that and the shutter and feel the mechanism behind the motion.

This publication is concerned with a series of questions in computer engineering: the power supply system of the high-speed electronic computer of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.; new elements and units for computers; a method of control of the arithmetic unit; a method of selecting the required word from the dictionary in machine translation; and present-day computer terminology. The…

Vice President Richard Nixon examines Soviet scissors