RYAD - The Soviet attempt to clone the IBM S/360

In the late 1960s, the Soviet Union and a number of allied countries embarked on a bold attempt to significantly increase their computer technology and catch up to the west, via an ambitious effort to produce a clone of the popular IBM S/360 line of mainframes.

The result of this program was the RYAD line of Soviet mainframes, a whole family of computers that were a significant leap forward for Soviet computing, and a program whose story is a fascinating one both for the ways in which it succeeded as well as the ways in which it fell short.

The script can also be read over on our Substack account
https://substack.com/inbox/post/84415126

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Update: It has been brought to my attention that I badly mispronounced "peripheral" every single time I said it. I have corrected my pronunciation going forward and future videos will have...well they may have other inadvertently mispronounced words, but "peripheral" will not be one of them ;)

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