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get an electric screwdriver my dude!

50000 people used to live in this city. Now, it's a ghost town.

The SKALA computer had orders of magnitude less computer processing power than your smartphone.

I miss socialism 😢

This problem is not in Printer.problem is worstem owners and in avtor this video

The Tree of Friendship monument was beautiful!

Thank you for sharing this video. I remember the accident, living in the United States when it happened. So tragic, so much gone, so many brave souls whose lives were lost. I was just thinking about Pripyat and Chernobyl the other day, and just found this video that you did. Well done. Would like to see more videos like this. A tie to history.

Wonder if the work ethic has changed today? If not then Putin really is in trouble in Ukraine🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Which CPU ? A clone from western type ? How much Tape Storage can you access while running SKALA ? Questions, Questions…

Well, as already said the meter is fantastic. And please trust my experience that is not big. We used in Romania, somehow a similar meter, but the scale limits were detected by a induction based sensors which were mounted on a circle shape cogwheel inside to detect only the mix and max and that meter is way thick and a bit deeper. What is extremally interesting is that that multiple values (I mean multiple minimums and maximums values ca be detected and reported by the network of photoresistors planted on the film surface), plus, the only moving part inside is the mirror, which as it`s obvious it`s well protected). Another aspect is the color....a very logic scale....green---->yellow---->red. Redundancy of the limit detectors....if a photoresistor fails, the next in row, will send the signal. Even more, the tiny photoresistors can be planted in parallel... on this type of equipment the redundancy is crucial. One point of failure is the bulb itself, but even with a defective bulb, this can be easily observed by the staff from the day/night shift. For sure as the bulb is for 27V~ which often was used by navy/mil, even sometimes @400Hz, (for sel-syns for example), powered at 24V, will last a very very long time. I repaired some industrial electronics (sdelano v sssr) and noted really clever and extremely interesting ways of applying the physics, with very complex features, not easy to obtain, acquired thru simple means). The level of engineering, ingenuity was just insane...the engineers were really top top top of the class. I own as collector items some soviet electronics, also with lacquer on top, awesome. Don`t get me wrong, we had plenty top top engineers in Romania back in the days, yet this example with this special meter, which can be created today even smaller than the original one, is and absolute work of art. Could say more, but makes text too long to be read, about some of my experiences with sovietic electronics since it was largely spread and used in my country too.

Only people who fetishize soviet tech are either: 1. Talking about weapons (and they're not always correct anyway), 2. Not experiencing this crap every day.

Well still going to like it because they tried something. And it doesn't matter from where it is there is something interesting to see.

Дуже кльово, молодець це ж і роботи, але красиве❤

Imagine some "being" visiting our planet 100's or even thousands of years after the humans become extinct (if we ever do) and all they find is the remnants of what we once were... just buildings and cities overgrown with vegetation and that's it :( Yeah, this video sent me on a wild one ha. But all in all, i have always found Chornobyl fascinating! Slava Ukraini.

where do you find these Dismantling from the reactor?

gördüğüm en iyi kanal "chornobyl family"

It was not engineering problem. It was a money problem (imagine your country ruining but you must to produce something ). I often hear here, in Russia, that we could have both Socialism and smartphones today, they are not contradicting things...

Так загадково та чудесно, неначе ти у якійсь грі чи в іншому світі. Я знаю одну таку людину, яка хоче зробити фантастику в неначе зруйнованому світі, піду скажу їй про це) (Це був жарт, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. топ!)

Very nice soldering and materials used. Soviet naval comm equipment had the same quality and rather strange looking yet strong and precise. Was in primary school mid 80s, and close to my school was company repairing naval communication devices and not only, from VHF to radars. They had a big building and all the items to be scrapped were deposited in courtyard. That was my Heaven, getting very interesting things, especially these special ones. The same precision and attention to details was given to those systems. Entire racks with high power RF tubes, SEL-SYN systems and other real interesting stuff. The solder alloy contains also silver and the purple paint on the joints is also special, prevents oxidation. For example a high voltage probe for a special voltmeter to measure direct output of an RF tube for VHF was rated ant 6Kv and contained an extreme complex but symmetrical network of resistors. Each resistor was 10Gohm, all soldered with silver alloy and disposed very precise on the internals of the probe looking like a skeleton, to avoid arching. Of course everything was bearing the well-known quality mark OTK, for mil-specs equipment. As already being said, the 2 double triodes inside the detector are probably used to obtain the high voltage for the ionization chamber. Or they might be high gain amplifiers for the signal coming out the electrodes withing the chamber. Most sure that the detector is very sensitive and well in range, even after so many years. And yes the parts inside detector should not be touched to avoid their contamination from fingers. The germanium transistors, probably multivibrator-oscillator, not sure if some documentation is available. Nice piece of equipment Alex.

It would be a great background for the studio. I imagine the wall behind you getting covered over time in this kind of things. Also to interface them, I'd go with shift registers: the common 74HC595 can be chained for an arbitrary amount of outputs, all of which you update with one set of 3 or 4 wires at up to a couple megabits if you like. I believe there's not only a Soviet counterpart, but also a version with high voltage outputs for VFDs and Nixies.

It must have been created at their research institute in Ukraine

well, regarding the millions of dollars back in 1985 - I absolutely have to notice: they were not privately owned)) (as well as the laptops, by the way)

You got a new subscriber, greetings from Finland! I was almost 12 years old when Chernobyl happened and I think I remember there was quite a bit of panic and confusion in our family too. We lived near western coast of Finland...

That's awesome. 👏

Графік відключення світла на такій панелі виглядав би епічно🤯… аж поки світло б не зникло

Your Grandparents probably made this Printer, go easy on them

Nice city

its probably stolen from IBM that needed 4 years for a printer - 4 Years for a PRINTER

Rusnya can't do quality anything

I really enjoyed this ! Firstly you tracked the engineering history, and as a person who also does this, it is fun. Secondly you have a lovely sense of humour with discussion of Dollars and "polite conversations with cold-eyed people"... Subscribing... 😂❤😊

Вау! Здорово

I would love to reverse engineer the electronics maybe try to get it to a usable state

Ну советы накопировали, наворотили, нитошто БАРЕНСКИЙ ОРИГИНАЛ

This seems like an AMAZING Arduino project. You have massive patience and the result is beautiful.

Ah so this is who made HP inkjet printers…it does explain some things…

How they said with a deep longing - какую срану прорсали! 😂

Lefhanded russians did something with hammers and proudly name it as a Printer ! ☝😃

SOVOK ! 😂

Nice content. I will chip in. During the time we developed photos at home (like everybody). Almost all the equipment was from East Germany. Once I managed to buy a russian digital countdown clock for exposition time (instead of the mechanical). Simplified version of what you shown. The clock display actually exposed the photo paper too.

It's so fascinating to see this. I'm wondering how it is possible that all this nature grows, trees, plants and bushes and doesn't seem affected at all by the radiation?

20:27 strong Locoscript vibes

This is so amazing. Impresionante, un saludo desde Montevideo, Uruguay.

This is absolutely disgusting what happened in Chernobyl this never should have happened this is all because of one man made a very big mistake a lot of people had died ain't got radiation poisoning I hope this man was charged for This Disaster the world forever

I remember this... I'm from Poland. I was a little child. Employees of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station came to our homes and gave Lugol's iodine to drink... and in schools they also gave it to children. We were informed very late. There was no internet, no one knew what was happening there. Probably two days have passed since the disaster, a radioactive cloud was already hanging over all of Europe. I remember that each of us was afraid. Only later did they show what happened on TV. I couldn't believe it😥You live peacefully, go to work and school, you probably have your first love, you get married, a child is born, you meet your friends in the evenings, you plan your future, your city is very modern and suddenly... You lose everything and many of your friends die 😥

The secret of soviet, or should I say - communist quality lie in this Polish saying from the times: "Czy się stoi, czy się leży 1500 się należy" - which means: No matter if you work or just sleep (at work), you will be payed 1500. The thing is - in communism work is mandatory. If you were caught just walking or enjoying yourself at public space between 8:00 and 16:00 o clock by militia (police but communist) - they would beat you and then drive you to work. If you were unemployed - they would beat you again and find you some work. As a worker you literally could not be fired and your basic rule was to show up at work. That means that most workers in comunist countries were either lazy, drunk or didn't care. From what I heard - people working at the shipyards often had injuries or even died because it was dangeorus job, and they did it while drunk. I mean - you were paid the same amount no matter how good or bad you was at your job, no matter if you did anything or just show up at 8:00. Of course some people would work very hard, accomplishing 200% or 300% more then anyone else - why? Because in communist countries the only way to buy a car was to be either in "one party" or "przodownik pracy" - which means you worked your ass of. Also you could find people that just did they work as they should and of course military would get the best stuff. Communism is really shitty, shitty, shitty invention. It might be paradise for lazy people and lunatics - but even they had to fight over very limited quantity of low grade, gray and rough toilet paper that hurts as hell when you swipe your butthole.

Cannot understand a word he is saying.

Kummasti se vaan on ryssälle kelvannut esim. Ikkunat. Ei paljon haittaa säteilyt ,kun saa omakustannushintaan.

This plastic "texture" and "dirt" is from injection plastic to the form during production. This is caused by overheating of the plastic, which results in these burns. During the production process, they obviously did not monitor the temperature of the material during injection.

I can see "heil Stalin" written on some of the electronics IC!