Recent Changes

Here are the last month or so of the most important changes and additions to the site. The latest changes are at the top, and links towards the bottom are the least reliable. It is probably better to follow links for older entries from the main indexes rather than from the items mentioned here, due to the continually changing organization.

Friday, 25 February 2007	Those interested in retro technology may also be interested in my other passion -- 1930s style mechanical television. It's quite amazing how it all worked. Visit the mechanical television forum for more information as to how it all works. It's amazing just how much spam a forum attracts. And I thought email was bad! There must be 20 attacks a day, and I've adjusted the registration so that I can reduce the amount of maintenance required. Later note: forum has been removed.
Friday, 19 January 2007	I've added a forum in which you can chat about the site and machines.
Sunday, 19 September 2004	Two new machines have surfaced! Both interesting made-for-school machines, and previously unreported. Malish and Schoolboy. The pictures you see are currently the only known images of these machines.
Sunday, 4 April 2004	Another picture, and lots more information about the secret military MK-85C ('Ancrypt') is now available!
Friday, 2 April 2004	Amazingly, the secret military MK-85C ('Ancrypt') has been found and photographed! Thanks to an anonymous donor of photographs, for the first time in the West we get to see a top-secret Russian military cryptographic device from the mid 1990's!
Saturday, 6 March 2004	New backplate image of MK-90 added. The price: 3500 rubles! Thanks to Sergei for the image. New manual image added for B3-19M. Thanks Sergei!
Tuesday, 2 March 2004	Another new machine! The MKU1-1 (MKy1-1) -- thanks to 'magnety111' for use of the images! Please note the change of my contact email address to andrew[at]taswegian.com. Various links and image fixups. For example, the MK-95 does actually exist! Sergei's site shows a fascinating new machine, the MC-1104. Another new machine from Sergei, the Iskra 12. I'll update this site as time permits, but for now we'll point to Sergei's fine site for these new machines. Yet another new one - the Iskra 108D. ...and the Iskra 112
Saturday, February 14, 2004	Well, it has been a long time between drinks! I've been very busy on other things, but keeping all the new information (email, pictures, etc) in a folder ready to post 'one day'. A recent new calculator find prompts this update. Thanks to the regular visitors and to those who have left comments in the guestbook since I last peeked! The very first of these updates is the childrens' calculator Malish which has recently been discovered! Those MK-87 machines did eventually arrive! I gave one to my pal Sergei for his collection, as a thank-you for the help he's given me.
Thursday, April 26, 2001	I'm delighted to be able to add some pictures of the Elektronika MK-95 to the site. Thanks to Sergei, of course - our two machines are serial #0004 and #0005. Looks like this is one of the rarest of them all! It is worth noting that the MK-87 machines (see below negotiation link) have still not arrived - 4 months late, now. Patience is a must!