The Iskra 1030 () was an
Intel 8086
The 8086 (also called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit computing, 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and June 8, 1978, when it was released. The Intel 8088, released July 1, 1979, is a slightly modified chip with an external 8-b ...
compatible personal computer produced in the
USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
.
It was designed by Elektronmash () in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
. The main manufacturers were the Iskra factory () in
Smolensk
Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow.
First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It has been a regional capital for most of ...
and the Shchyotmash factory () in
Kursk
Kursk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur (Kursk Oblast), Kur, Tuskar, and Seym (river), Seym rivers. It has a population of
Kursk ...
. The model line consisted of Iskra 1030.11 (basic), Iskra 1030М (modified), Iskra 1031, and Iskra 3104.
Specification
The Iskra 1030M produced from 1989 comprised:
* CPU:
K1810VM86 (, Intel
8086
The 8086 (also called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and June 8, 1978, when it was released. The Intel 8088, released July 1, 1979, is a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (allo ...
clone), 4.77 MHz
* RAM: 640 KB
* Display: color CGA compatible
* Floppy disk drive: 1×720 KB
* Hard disk drive: 20 MB
* Operating system: ADOS (; Russian DOS, compatible with MS-DOS/PC DOS 2.x and 3.x),
MS-DOS
MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few op ...
,
CP/M-86
CP/M-86 is a discontinued version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are the same as in CP/M-80. Executable files used the relocatable .CMD file format. Digital Re ...
* Release Date: 1989
I1030m.jpg, Искра 1030М
I1031.jpg, Искра 1031
Software
The computer was shipped with ADOS, a Russian version of MS-DOS/PC DOS 2.x and 3.x, a
BASIC
Basic or BASIC may refer to:
Science and technology
* BASIC, a computer programming language
* Basic (chemistry), having the properties of a base
* Basic access authentication, in HTTP
Entertainment
* Basic (film), ''Basic'' (film), a 2003 film
...
interpreter, the special language and interpreter for accounting calculations YAMB (), the text editor R1. The operating system used the
main code page, hardwired into the display ROM; it was compatible neither with
CP 866 nor
CP 855, although partially with
ISO/IEC 8859-5
ISO/IEC 8859-5:1999, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic alphabet'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 198 ...
.
See also
*
ES PEVM
External links
* Sergei Frolov's Soviet Digital Electronics Museum
*
Iskra 1030.11*
Iskra 1030M*
Iskra 1031*
Iskra 1030 (PC Museum)
References
{{List of Soviet computer systems
Personal computers
Soviet computer systems
Computer-related introductions in 1989