Computer Hobbies

 

ZX-Spectrum  Do It Yourself

WHAT I FIND USEFUL

Web Design, esp. for others

This page is dedicated completely to the first programmable device which I held in my hands. It was very long ago when I lived in Odessa Ukraine.  That time I experienced this calculator as it was built on a plat. I left it Ukraine when upon my leave for USA. The good thing that playing it, I could hold it in hand and move from one end of apartment to another, just like a cordless phone. But it was absolutely impossible to save programs, or introduce new features as its possible with an emulator. MK-61 was not the best perfect of programmable calculators of that time and place, yet not the worst.

Read a story of my first acquaintance with MK61

Here is the wonderful emulator of this device

Here is a collection of interesting gaming programs for it.

 

Hacking MK-61 (by means of expanding it)

 Museum of Soviet Calculators on the Web

                          http://rk86.com/frolov/mk-61.htm

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(I guess now, you know all about the device which marks the sunrise of my computer programming proficiency)