Elorg
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Elorg was
MEP's1 export arm, and for instance
Electronika 60, an LSI-11 clone, was sold as Elorg 60
abroad. It can, however, serve as proof that these
machines were original enough to be sold outside
COMECON2 without Elorg getting sued.
- Alexei
This Elorg... which is mentioned in the calculators is not the producer,
but a soviet import/export company which had a monopoly in trading
electronics related products. They used to have this kind of centralized
big organizations so that it was easy to make electronics business with
Soviet Union: you only had to contact one company. University of Turku used
to have one of their medium sized computers, but it has been destroyed
years ago.
- Timo Leipala
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As everywhere, progress in Russian electronics was
driven by competition. Main competitors were MRP
(Ministry of Radio Industry) and MEP (Ministry of
Electronics Industry). MEP was responsible for MK
series, and MRP for B3
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COMECON : COuncil for Mutual ECONomic assistance, SEV in
Russian. EU for the Eastern Block. Included all
Warsaw treaty countries plus Mongolia, prompting a
joke: "What is SEV? - A combination of Polish
ingenuity, Russian diligence and Mongolian computers"
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