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...only does Moscow lack the hard currency for large-scale purchases of Western equipment, but it also is pumping big amounts ($10 billion during 1970-75) into the development of its own computer industry, which has an estimated 80 plants employing 300,000 people. One Western expert, Bohdan Szuprowicz, a Polish-born authority on Soviet computers who advises major U.S. companies, sees signs that Moscow has been assembling only a sample of the most advanced Western computers it is permitted to buy as patterns for its own models. Says he: "It appears as if someone behind the scenes orchestrated...
...million operations per second. But although it is supposed to come into use this year, it has not appeared so far, and some Western experts wonder whether the BESM-10 has run into problems. If so, the Cyber 76 could conceivably be used to help solve them. Says Szuprowicz: "It is very difficult to believe they would not get some helpful ideas from Cyber 76 once they had it installed on their territory...
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