THIS SOVIET COMPUTER has been FORGOTTEN FOR 30 YEARS!

Greetings from Ukraine! Support saving computer history during wartime: You get the FULL version of the video and a lot of Computers of Chornobyl content. Buy us a Coffee: ES-1841 is a Soviet i8086 clone-based IBM PC/XT-compatible computer, that was used in the Chornobyl Zone. In this episode, we will start it in full configuration for the first time in nearly 3 decades! We will review and try some historic programs and, for sure, will play the legendary Digger! Contents of this video: 0:00 – Intro 0:49 – Getting software was a challenge 1:20 – Don't forget – there is much more in the full version 1:30 – Launch set-up configuration review 3:10 – A pretty special keyboard 3:58 – How we discovered corrosion of gold 4:30 – POWER ON! And BIOS memory test 5:15 – Booting and trying the Alpha-DOS operation system 7:10 – About the standard software suite 7:30 – DELOGRAF business graphic app from ±1987 13:00 – Info-Gamma dosimetry program from Chernobyl '88 18:00 – Printing a dosimetry report on a matrix printer 18:38 – Building radiation charts 19:07 – CommanDOS file manager 21:46 – Trying MS-DOS and Volkov Commander 22:37 – A calculator from the USSR Ministry of Energy 23:21 – Playing DIGGER! 27:15 – M86 and CP/M operation systems 28:33 – Outro