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Red Clones: The Soviet Computer Hobby Movement of the 1980s
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 37, Number 1, January-March 2015
- pp. 12-23
- Article
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The Soviet microcomputer hobby movement began in the early 1980s. It passed through two main developmental stages before it melted away a decade later, leaving behind a country enchanted with microcomputing. This article traces the development of the movement and assesses its significance and place in the USSR’s history of computing.