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Yeah, as I said, most factories closed by the end of the 70s, but some operated till the USSR dissolved.
The system wasn’t that bad to be honest… at least not in Yugoslavia. USSR was a different story. We had all the perks of the west with none of the obligations. Of course, you can’t compete with the western tech markets (yes, we did try that, look up Zastava, Yugo, Iskra, Gorenje) with a system like that, it’s just not designed to compete with capitalism, so it was doomed to fail when everyone around you is capitalist. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.
There are other open forums, free for registration. I could look up the URLs if you want, I have them in a plain text file on my PC (I’m on my phone right now), some are also good, like vinafix for example (not ex USSR, but still good, it’s Vietnamese). I haven’t visited them in years though, things might have changed. I started working in IT and just lost interest in that… no money, no point in doing it. Hardware is dirt cheap nowadays.
Oh, and the URL is remont-aud.net, not remont-aud.com, sorry my mistake 😁.
No, they were done with Nixie tubes by the end of the 70’s… well, most of them.
Jr. Highschool history teacher visited, said they employ old ladies in the Moscow subway to watch the escalators just because everyone needed a job.
That was one of the main problems with communism and socialism. Not enough incentive for education, so just make up jobs, no matter how stupid they are. We called those jobs “doorknob operators” in ex Yugoslavia. It was a shitty deal, but there was no incentive for a large portion of the population to actually learn something useful because even if you don’t have anything other than a 4th grade education, you still had to be part of the workforce, and instead of forcing people to actually get a degree (mind you the state was the only employer at that time, even though, at least in ex Yugoslavia, there was an option for venture capital and self-employment in the 80’s, but no one actually did it… or very few, and on a very small scale), they just went “the hell with it 🤦… just… do something”… which could have panned out in the long term, but no one could know.
So uh… what Soviet electronics forums should we be visiting OP?
remont-aud.com and electrotanya.com. The second one is free from registrations, but the first one, no… and they hold most of the goodies when it comes to device schematics.
There are others, some are hidden from search bots, some hidden completely… of course, invite only. It’s not always the schematics that are shared, but the knowledge and knowhow that is worth the effort. Most stuff does eventually get leaked though.
It’s not that there isn’t a license, there is, but the license says there is no license, it’s public domain, do whatever you like. It’s not a problem if your license says that there is no license, but yes, it is a problem if you don’t have any license attached to your code. In those cases, yes, most distros don’t touch that code… or maybe point at the project, but do whatever you deem is right with it, we’re officially not touching it.
Yeah, it might be a good idea to embed the cabox.moe link and share the archive.org link in the comment.