1987 - Exhibition "Computer Science in the Life of the United States"
Probably not mistaken if I assume that some part of the Habra community remembers this event, which took place in Moscow, Kiev, Rostov-on-Don, Tbilisi, Tashkent, Irkutsk, Magnitogorsk, Leningrad and Minsk.
For me personally, my acquaintance with high technologies began with him, although having come there, I saw a sufficient number of peers who occupied computers with their Bulgarian 5-inch floppy disks, and as the New York Times writes on June 6, 1987, some have already tried to persuade the guides to copy them Lotus 1,2,3. So,
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In 1985 in Geneva, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Sergeevich signed an agreement on cultural exchange. The US news agency then spent 15 million dollars to themountain came to Magomed Soviet citizen saw a piece of America. Wikipedia writes
Despite the benevolence of the guides, the light ambre of the Cold War did accompany the exhibition. Even I, then another 12 year old teenager caught it. It can only be me on the questionnaire displays with touch squares "yes" and "no" recorded speaker along with harmless questions, asked the question "Do you listen to Radio Liberty and the Voice of America."
I hope those who visited the exhibition will share their memories in the comments. I also remembered the turn to the apparatus for measuring pressure, the synthesizer, which was allowed to play for all and sundry, an excerpt from the movie “Back to the Future”, a free catalog of the exhibition with lots of interesting things, including an article about Steve Jobs and “Macintosh” .
It is very interesting now to read the view of the American press on this exhibition. Teenagers with diskettes who want to get pirated software, crowds at monitors with a rock music video Cindy Lauper after two hours of standing in line,
The queue at the exhibition in Rostov-on-Don
The visitor tries the flight simulator
Guide Tim Fry demonstrates software
Presentation for Soviet VIPs
Guide Melinda talks about agricultural informatization
Guide Liz Hill Shows Portable Camcorder
Guide Jennifer answers questions about America
The queue at ENEA
Russian teenagers are experiencing a flight simulator
Exhibition in Tashkent
For me personally, my acquaintance with high technologies began with him, although having come there, I saw a sufficient number of peers who occupied computers with their Bulgarian 5-inch floppy disks, and as the New York Times writes on June 6, 1987, some have already tried to persuade the guides to copy them Lotus 1,2,3. So,
')
In 1985 in Geneva, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Sergeevich signed an agreement on cultural exchange. The US news agency then spent 15 million dollars to the
Most visitors to the exhibition for the first time saw the computer equipment "live". The strongest impression was made by the photograph on the 46th page of the catalog: “the modern cowboy is feeding the flock, looking at the computer screen”
Despite the benevolence of the guides, the light ambre of the Cold War did accompany the exhibition. Even I, then another 12 year old teenager caught it. It can only be me on the questionnaire displays with touch squares "yes" and "no" recorded speaker along with harmless questions, asked the question "Do you listen to Radio Liberty and the Voice of America."
I hope those who visited the exhibition will share their memories in the comments. I also remembered the turn to the apparatus for measuring pressure, the synthesizer, which was allowed to play for all and sundry, an excerpt from the movie “Back to the Future”, a free catalog of the exhibition with lots of interesting things, including an article about Steve Jobs and “Macintosh” .
It is very interesting now to read the view of the American press on this exhibition. Teenagers with diskettes who want to get pirated software, crowds at monitors with a rock music video Cindy Lauper after two hours of standing in line,
The queue at the exhibition in Rostov-on-Don
The visitor tries the flight simulator
Guide Tim Fry demonstrates software
Presentation for Soviet VIPs
Guide Melinda talks about agricultural informatization
Guide Liz Hill Shows Portable Camcorder
Guide Jennifer answers questions about America
The queue at ENEA
Russian teenagers are experiencing a flight simulator
Exhibition in Tashkent
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/249651/
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