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Pictures of Vilen Plonikov - the chief designer computers "Karat" series Pioneers of on-Board Radio-Electronic System Computerization

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Development of Computer Science and Technologies in Ukraine. Brief History Russian      Ukrainian Vilen Plotnikov the easel. 90-s XX century Vilen Plotnikov an original artist and photographer, connoisseur and lover of literature, theatre, music. The "Carat" family of installed computers, developed under his management, was the first in the Soviet Union broadly used in navy radio-electronic systems

Vilen Plotnikov painting in water-colours

Litau. Klaipeda, 1987

Vocation in Crimea, 1988.

Crimea. Road to Foros, 1988

Artics. Old boat Scooner, 1989

Golden Twilight, 1989

Litau. Lutheran Church, 1990

Corner of Russia, 1990

Spring Winter Crops Rise, 1990

Kyiv. Autumn in Hydropark, 1991

Dnipro fluxes, 1992

It is getting cold, 1992

Sun Sank behind the Hills, 1994

End of Fall, 1995

Country Sketch, 1995

First Snow, 1996

Kyiv. Crossing to Dovbich Island, 1997

"...The "Carat" family of installed computers, developed under Vilen Plotnikov management, was the first in the Soviet Union broadly used in navy radio-electronic systems. The important indicator of computer perfection is mean-time-between-failures which consisted more than 2 000 hours (almost 100 days) for the first "Carats" and more than 10 000 hours (almost 5 years) for the next modifications. At the beginning of 70-s these figures seemed to be fantastic. But computers used in surface ships and submarines and operating under conditions of high humidity, great temperature fluctuations, weight overloading required this very reliability. "Carats" passed the exams: many computers had operated on board for 10-15 years without a single failure! Within these years more than 2000 computers were manufactured at the plants of Ukraine and Russia! They were used in systems of sixty modifications..."

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