Today, we present one of the rarest pieces of vintage computer hardware you can find in 2023: the Electronika MS1504, also known as PC300 — the first and only laptop computer made in the USSR. They produced so few of them that perhaps only around one hundred have survived to the present day. Join us for a comprehensive exploration of its design, hardware, software, and, of course, the history of its creation... ... and its eventual lack of success.

In this episode, you will find:
00:00 – Intro
00:50 – Overview
04:18 – The prototype – Toshiba T1100 Plus and the history of the creation of PC300.
07:46 – Let's take a look inside.
10:30 – Power supply
12:30 – Motherboard, experimental chips, and more.
16:32 – Display
18:30 – A small attempt to power the laptop on.
19:42 – Our cat discovered the demo floppy disk!
24:09 – Test instruments for PC300
26:54 – Outro

A great thanks to DrPass for providing us with the device for this review!

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