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Elektronika is a common brand mark applied to many electronic items - mainly appliances (watches, calculators, telephones and others).
Early calculators had the individual model names (VEGA, Iskra, EPOS). These machines were marked with the acronym "EKBM" (electronic keyboard computing machine), which was later replaced by "microcalculator".
In the beginning of the 70s, the branding of calculators was standardized by using prefix B3. Prefix B2 was used for desktop LCD watches, B5 for hand watches, B6, B7 for desktop watches and others. During the transition to the B3 standard, some calculators displayed two names (e.g.: EPOS 73A and B3-11) before complete removal from production.
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The Electronic Age!
Most Soviet calculators were members of specific series, with model designations starting Iskra, B3, C3, MK. The machines shown here are generally the earliest of the Soviet fully electronic calculators, which were produced before the standardised model naming came into common use. Each calculator shown here has a dedicated page with larger images and more information. If you have information about a calculator not present on this list, or further information about one that is, or corrections to data already here, I would appreciate hearing from you!
These machines show some unusual and amusing names - not to mention their design! Most of these machines are incredibly rare - known only from pictures in old magazines, or perhaps by a single example in a collector's hands.
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In 1961 a delegation of Scientists from the USSR visited an exhibition of industrial equipment in England, at which was demonstrated the first completely electronic calculator, the Anita MK-8. After their return to the USSR, it was accepted that there was a need to create a domestically produced completely electronic calculator. From 1961, a group of the scientific employees of the Leningrad department of Central economic-mathematical institute Academy of Sciences USSR began to develop the first Soviet calculator, which was codenamed "VEGA".
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The year is 1967, and in this machine we see the very first Soviet electronic calculator capable of calculating trigonometric functions. Half a metre wide, 25kg and it proclaims itself "small"!
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This is a beautiful alien machine! The most impressive
thing is that its 9 segment (YES, nine segment) display.
Bizarre. The 1, 3 and 7 use the extra segments. The display is
weird, indeed. Leading zeroes are NOT suppressed. Numbers display
on the right as you enter them. (zeroes extend left). Zero displays in small form. (i.e.: o instead of 0)
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This machine, with minor variations, is known as the 68 or DD, and is probably a copy of the SHARP Compet 10. |
Completely unknown until a friend of Sergei's gave it to him. What a great machine! 14 Nixie tubes and weighs a ton.
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Could be LEKON. The only machine of this manufacturer known, its programmable. Very interesting, mmmh? Almost certainly an MK-56 clone.
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The Summing Digital Ten-Keyboard Mechanical Machine! Why don't they come up with names like that anymore? Great find, fascinating machine. Circa 1970.
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The first machine from the Svetlana company, which went on to make the C3-Series machines.
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Previously classified as Integral (due to the MC model prefix), this machine is reclassified as it's definitely an Elektronika branded MK-64 clone.
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Derived from the MK-35, this combined desktop calculator, calendar, organizer, pen-holder, is just plain tacky!
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This was a military machine.
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Specially designed for children.
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Another machine designed for children.
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