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Post# 18299   8/9/2007 at 17:28 (6,101 days old) by ian88 ()        

Modern retro style vacuum cleaner, looks very nice..

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Post# 18305 , Reply# 1   8/9/2007 at 19:57 (6,101 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

COOL!

Post# 18306 , Reply# 2   8/9/2007 at 20:07 (6,101 days old) by ian88 ()        

I believe Nizhny Novgorod Machine Building Plant made Tanks and Tractors for the soviet union during ww2 ;p

so you know how the quality will be ;]

Post# 18434 , Reply# 3   8/11/2007 at 14:17 (6,099 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
Mad Russian

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Designed the prettiest new canister vacuum in exsistance. Great colours too.

Post# 18435 , Reply# 4   8/11/2007 at 14:27 (6,099 days old) by ian88 ()        

Ok it turns out Nizhny Novgorod Machine Building Plant actually makes ships for the Russian Navy but even so, it's a bit odd ;p the way the Russian (and soviet during the cold war) economy works seems to be mostly military factories building domestic appliances as well as tanks and the like, the company that produces the AK-74 assault rifles also makes cars, motorcycles and stuff..the company that builds the T-80 main battle tank also makes food processors and stuff ;p

Also it seems this vacuum cleaner is a modernization of a much older design, rather than a totally new design.

Ian

Post# 18521 , Reply# 5   8/12/2007 at 20:07 (6,098 days old) by westyslantfront ()        

The Nizhny Novgorad sure looks nice but I wonder how it performs and what the suction is like. Sure would like to see what Russia has in the way of washing machines.

Ross

Post# 18529 , Reply# 6   8/12/2007 at 20:18 (6,098 days old) by ian88 ()        

There was a russian auction site that had this 1980s soviet automatic washing machine, looked like most european models (albeit a bit more heavy duty) soviet era products were of course normally just referred to as numbers rather than brands such as say, RKD-55 and stuff like that.

Post# 18705 , Reply# 7   8/13/2007 at 14:54 (6,097 days old) by ian88 ()        

Well you often get a load of Communist East German products for sale on ebay germany, here's an example..

Post# 18706 , Reply# 8   8/13/2007 at 14:55 (6,097 days old) by ian88 ()        

And another..

Post# 18707 , Reply# 9   8/13/2007 at 14:56 (6,097 days old) by ian88 ()        

And an old manual for one..

Post# 18874 , Reply# 10   8/14/2007 at 21:13 (6,096 days old) by westyslantfront ()        

Hi Ian. Thank you for the interesting pictures.


Ross

Post# 18915 , Reply# 11   8/15/2007 at 04:28 (6,095 days old) by ian88 ()        

You can occasionally find some DDR washers/spinners/wringers on ebay.de too mate :]

Don't find many soviet appliances at all though.

Post# 18983 , Reply# 12   8/15/2007 at 16:24 (6,095 days old) by westyslantfront ()        

Hi Ian. I used to work for Lufthansa German Airlines when I lived in New York City. I once made a 6 day visit to
East Germany DDR in 1975. I have been back since and it sure has changed.


Ross

Post# 18985 , Reply# 13   8/15/2007 at 16:37 (6,095 days old) by ian88 ()        

The Robotron buildings still there :P

(ya might know them) Massive East German electronics company, or "kombinat" as they were called, similar to Japanese Zaibatsu..Robotron employed 60,000 people in it's HQ in dresden alone, they controlled the entire east german electronics industry, both military and consumer.

The giant lives on of course, but it's very much a shadow of what it once was.

Ian

Post# 18991 , Reply# 14   8/15/2007 at 17:29 (6,095 days old) by lux1521 ()        

Did AMD buy any of the Robotron facilities? AMD has a serious plant there now and are probably the biggest electronics companys in Dresden. They seem to have had a strong influence on the electronics industry there in recent years.

Now that I do a bit of research (5 min worth) I discover that a lot of electronics are made there. Looks like an interesting place.

Aerial View Of AMD's Dresden Plant:

Post# 18995 , Reply# 15   8/15/2007 at 17:45 (6,095 days old) by ian88 ()        

Well of course, something as big as Robotron never goes away ;]

(check ebay.de for robotron stuff :P most of which works good as new)

let me check..

Infineon and AMD chose Dresden for their most modern fabrication plants. Both produce their top-end chips here, making the city crucial to their long-term success.

Dresden owes much of its good fortune today to the inefficiencies of the old regime. Bloated work forces at the likes of ZMD left behind armies of highly skilled, out-of-work engineers, nearly all willing to work longer hours with fewer perks than their counterparts in Western Germany.

"My engineers work 45 to 50 hours a week, which is normal," said Klaus-Detlef Paesch, who began at ZMD in 1979 and now leads a 44-person-strong chip-quality testing team at AMD.

Unions have made few inroads here, he said, adding, "Thank goodness." And the proud Saxons have a famous disdain for Western Germany's notoriously tangled bureaucracy.

"If you have a reasonable proposal, you can call the mayor and he will accelerate it for you," said Thilo von Selchow, ZMD chief executive. "For Germany, that is still not typical."

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Locals joke that everything began in 1961 with the original AMD — Arbeitsstelle fuer Molekularelektronik Dresden, or Dresden Workplace for Molecular Electronics. Even by communist standards, the name lacked pizzazz, and it became Zentrum Mikroelektronic Dresden in 1969, the same year AMD was incorporated in Sunnyvale, California.

Leaning back in his cubicle, Paesch at AMD likes to reminisce about decades of Iron Curtain subterfuge known euphemistically, he said, as "reverse engineering" and today as simple piracy.

Buying technology licenses, like Western companies do, was politically impossible. He knows colleagues who reverse-engineered DEC desktops, a complete IBM mainframe and just about every chip imaginable. Several of them hold senior AMD management jobs today, he said.

ZMD also fostered an East German computer-hardware combine on the other side of the city, Robotron, once the IBM of Eastern Europe. Nearly all of Robotron's pre-1989 production went to the Soviet Union, often in exchange for Soviet oil and gas. It also built the electronic cockpit components for Soviet fighter jets.

(from an article on www.iht.com...)


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