Hi all, The Hungarian Central Institute of Physics (KFKI) in Soviet times used to make PDP and VAX clones branded as "TPA":
http://hampage.hu/tpa/e_index.html Kudos to Ákos Varga "Hamster", one of the earliest Hungarian DEC collectors for preserving this information back in the '90s. Regards, Sab On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:57:52 -0400 Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 10/17/22 14:47, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After some discussion on reddit about russian PDP-11 clones, i made the > > (perhaps erronous) claim that the PDP series in general was cloned by the > > Soviets. > > > > I’m aware that there was a lot of QBUS/LSI PDP-11 clones, and depite poor > > documentation, there is significant evidence of PDP-8 clones. Also, depite > > not strictly a “PDP”, the VAX series was also cloned. > > I am not aware of any VAX clones but during the height of the > cold war real VAX were frequently illegally moved to the USSR > via India who had no problems with violating their agreements > with their allies. > > Just like someone in the US bought a copy of BSD Unix for the > VAX and it was known to have been smuggled out of the country > in a diplomatic pouch via the Russian Embassy in DC. > > bill > --
