Dating to the early 1980s, this Soviet made film shows Russian students using computers to play games and perform other tasks. At 1:06, a diskette is inserted into the computer, which appears to be a ES PEVM, a Soviet made IBM PC or clone. The software shown is in English and at 1:39, in Russian. At 2:42, a man uses a joystick to control artistic software. At 2:59 a mouse is used with the same graphic software. At 3:42, a programmable MIDI keyboard is connected to a computer. At 4:47 a student plays chess on the computer. At 5:29 the word IBM shows up on screen, in cyrillic. At 5:53 is a historical montage showing some of the methods of calculation in past history including the abacus. At 6:20, a museum display shows slide rules and Pascal, as well as an adding machine, and at 7:00 an adding machine and Charles Babbage’s counting machine. At 7:47, while the narrator speaks about John von Neumann, an early mainframe type computer similar to a Univac or Eniac is shown. At 8:54 some of the inner workings of an early computer are shown including at 9:08 a tape memory drive. At 9:30 a more modern computer system with tape reels is shown in operation. At 11:11 a computer plotter is shown in operation. At 11:40, a dot matrix printer is shown at work. The film then shows a cartoon showing the evolution of counting machines and information devices. At 13:10 the interior of a compact computer is shown with the processor exposed. At 13:47 the IBM computer is celebrated.
ES PEVM (ЕС ПЭВМ) was a Soviet clone of the IBM PC in 1980s. The ES PEVM models lineup also included analogues of IBM PC XT, IBM PC AT, IBM XT/370. The computers and software were adapted in Minsk, Belarus, at the Scientific Research Institute of Electronic Computer Machines (НИИ ЭВМ). They were manufactured in Minsk as well, at Minsk Production Group for Computing Machinery (Минское производственное объединение вычислительной техники (МПО ВТ)). The computers were shipped with AlphaDOS, an entirely Russified version of MS-DOS/PC DOS 2.x and 3.x. All commands were entered in Russian, for example, СМЕНКАТ for CHDIR. Files and file extensions were also in Russian, such as АТРИБ.ИСП for ATTRIB.EXE. 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.
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