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Minsk family of computers

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At one point the Minsk-222 (an upgraded prototype based on the most popular model, Minsk-22) and Minsk-32 were considered as a potential base for a future unified line of mutually compatible mainframes — that would later become the
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line, but despite being popular among users, good match between their tech and Soviet tech base and familiarity to both programmers and technicians lost to the proposal to copy the
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line of mainframes — the possibility to just copy all the software existing for it was deemed more important.
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The word size was 31 bits for Minsk-1 and 37 bits for the other models.
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was a solid-state digital computer that went into production in 1962.
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was a vacuum-tube digital computer that went into production in 1960.
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was a modified version of Minsk-2 that went into production in 1965.
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Control panel of Minsk 22 computer in the Technical Museum of
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Brno
mainframe
Byelorussian SSR
COBOL
FORTRAN
ALGOL
Engineer's Autocode
assembly language
ES EVM
IBM/360
Mark Nemenman
""Minsk-1" First original Belarusian Computer"
"Soviet Computer. Memorandum"
National Security Archive
"Computer Arithmetic"
Archived
Russian Virtual Computer Museum
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List of Soviet computer systems
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Agat
Aragats
Argon
ATM Turbo
BESM
Besta
Dnepr

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