When Soviets tried to build an Arduino...

Today, we will take a look at this legendary device: an educational microprocessor lab created at the VEF factory in Latvia in 1988. It served as a tool for studying the architecture and operations of the Soviet clone of the Intel 8080 processor, the KR580VM80A. In a certain sense, it shared similarities with the famous MITS Altair computer. When equipped with expansion cards, it has extensive capabilities for building microprocessor-driven devices — somewhat like the modern Arduino.

What you will find in this episode:
00:00 – Introduction
01:20 – An episode about SKALA is coming!
01:44 – KR580VM80A processor
02:11 – Controls, buttons, and LEDs
04:30 – What is inside?
08:36 – Restoration
10:00 – Entering the test program
11:07 – Test run of the Hello World program
12:06 – Outro and future plans

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