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Re: DEC and The Americans

From jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc
Subject Re: DEC and The Americans
Date 2016-01-27 15:42 +0000
Organization "Have EDDT, will travel"
Message-ID <PM00052A523B95B608@aca4109b.ipt.aol.com> (permalink)
References (11 earlier) <dgmpjsF24gvU2@mid.individual.net> <dgmpjsF24gvU2@mid.individual.net> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1601251056460.9361@darkstar.example.org> <PM00052A3CF4346EF5@aca46c41.ipt.aol.com> <n8905l$pj0$1@dont-email.me>

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Charles Richmond wrote:
> "jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:PM00052A3CF4346EF5@aca46c41.ipt.aol.com...
>> Michael Black wrote:
>>> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, RS Wood wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone here familiar with that TV series, The Americans?[1]  If you're
>>>> not,
>> I
>>>> can recommend it - it's pretty well done drama, set in about 1982
>> Washington
>>>> DC, where undercover KGB agents and the FBI are facing off.
>>>>
>>>> Thought I'd mention it because every scene shot within the Russian
>>>> embassy
>> to
>>>> the USA (ie, the USSR's building in Washington DC) features a lot of
>>>> prominent shots of DEC VT100 terminals gracing everyone's desks.
>>>>
>>>> At first I thought, typical Hollywood - they chose DEC because the
>> terminals
>>>> look a bit more dated than the more modern PCs sitting on the desks of
>>>> the
>>>> FBI, but poking around a bit [2], it might be accurate: the VT100
>>>> reigned
>>>> from about 1978 to 1982, so that would correspond with the show.
>>>>
>>> But could the Soviets buy DEC computers?
>>
>
> One way the Soviets bought modern computers is to have a third-party in some
> other country, like Germany or France, to buy the U.S. computer.  The
> computer would be transferred to the USSR in secret.  So the Soviets could
> *not* legally buy advanced US computers, but they could buy them through
> back-alley deals.

They tried that but the VAX was intercepted, IIRC, in Germany.

/BAH

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DEC and The Americans RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-25 17:26 +0300
  Re: DEC and The Americans Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-25 10:58 -0500
    Re: DEC and The Americans Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-01-25 11:47 -0500
    Re: DEC and The Americans John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2016-01-25 16:47 +0000
      Re: DEC and The Americans Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2016-01-25 17:41 +0000
        Re: DEC and The Americans mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2016-01-25 19:25 +0000
        Re: DEC and The Americans Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-01-25 16:15 -0500
      Re: DEC and The Americans Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-25 13:17 -0500
        Re: DEC and The Americans Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2016-01-26 08:20 +0000
          Re: DEC and The Americans mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-26 11:32 +0000
          Re: DEC and The Americans "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-01-26 17:23 -0600
        Re: DEC and The Americans Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2016-01-26 19:08 +0200
        Re: DEC and The Americans "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-01-26 17:20 -0600
          Re: DEC and The Americans scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-01-27 19:40 +0000
        Re: DEC and The Americans Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2016-01-27 22:40 -0800
      Re: DEC and The Americans Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2016-01-26 21:16 +0200
        Re: DEC and The Americans "Jack Myers" <jmyers@n6wuz.net> - 2016-01-28 10:07 -0800
    Re: DEC and The Americans "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-26 05:48 +1100
    Re: DEC and The Americans jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-01-26 13:56 +0000
      Re: DEC and The Americans "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-01-26 17:43 -0600
        Re: DEC and The Americans jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-01-27 15:42 +0000
          Re: DEC and The Americans pechter@pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) - 2016-02-03 00:36 +0000
            Re: DEC and The Americans jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-02-03 14:25 +0000
  Re: DEC and The Americans Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-25 17:27 +0000
    Re: DEC and The Americans Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-25 11:18 -0800
  Re: DEC and The Americans "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-26 05:40 +1100
  Re: DEC and The Americans "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 19:12 -0500
    Re: DEC and The Americans RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-26 14:22 +0000
      Re: DEC and The Americans Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-26 16:20 +0100
        Re: DEC and The Americans Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-26 11:36 -0500
        Re: DEC and The Americans "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 18:37 -0500
          Re: DEC and The Americans Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-01-27 03:58 +0000
            Re: DEC and The Americans Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-27 06:16 +0000
            Re: DEC and The Americans jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-01-27 15:42 +0000
            Re: DEC and The Americans Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-27 18:14 +0000
      Re: DEC and The Americans "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 18:34 -0500
  Re: DEC and The Americans bleep@compy.0-0 (Colonel Bleep) - 2016-01-30 07:07 +0000
    Re: DEC and The Americans "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-30 09:43 -0500
      Re: DEC and The Americans Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-30 09:02 -0800
    Re: DEC and The Americans Alfred Falk <falk@arc.ab.ca> - 2016-01-30 20:36 +0000

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