> On Sep 29, 2026, at 2:12 PM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Oddly enough I've been compiling a list of non-power-of-two machines and Ai
> does a good (or at least credible) job of turning web pages I don't
> understand into ones I think mostly match DeepL and Google Translate.
It's interesting how many of them are unauthorized copies of Western machines.
I have somewhere a brochure from a computer manufacturer in Soviet-occupied
Lithuania named STIMTI; the text is mostly in Lithuanian with shorter versions
in Russian and German. I forgot the details; I think one of the machines was
their own design but several are copies of DEC machines.
There is of course the famous story, possibly true, about the CVAX chip having
a little note on it in Russian saying "CVAX --- when you want to steal the very
best".
paul
