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Russia Planning a Permanent Manned Moonbase
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has announced plans to establish a permanent manned base on the moon within the next 15 years. Roscosmos aims to launch a probe to scout Lunar locations in 2024, and has already started construction on the Luna 25 lander that will send its people up…
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A Look Inside the Secret World of Soviet PCs
Much like present-day North Korea, Soviet Russia was isolated from the rest of the world, hidden behind the post-war Iron Curtain. Unknown to many, the rise of personal computers in the West during the Eighties was being mirrored in the Soviet Bloc, with homegrown Russian computers, inspired by their Western…
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Images of Late Soviet Union Computer Mouse Surface, Would Have Cost $300 in 1990
It looks like someone has stumbled upon a rare late Soviet computer mouse. The device is said to have been produced in 1990, but was modelled in 1989, as the documents state. The design is very weird and it comes in red colour (as it would be expected from that…
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