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Evolution (part 1)

After playing with the programming calculator for a while, I was thinking about having something that could be connected to a TV, so I could continue my programming experience. The thing is the personal computers were expensive those days and my parents couldn't afford one for me. In the mean time I was thinking about MK-52 as well, but that guy was also expensive and I just got MK-61 recently. I couldn't sell it like we do today on eBay or craigslist, so I had to wait. The next thing I was dreaming about was a personal computer "Poisk", released in 1991, but rumors about it started in 1990. Here is some information on it: It had a KM1810VM88 processor (similar to Intel 8088) at a clock frequency of 5.0 MHz (as opposed to the 4.77 MHz IBM PC/XT). It was like a little over-clocked version of XT :). It had 128KB of RAM and later 512MB (for revisions 1.04 and 1.06), built-in video card, supported graphics modes compatible with CGA (320x240 4 colors, 640x200 2 colors a

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