Russia's invasion of Ukraine has destroyed a historic computer museum

in #russia2 years ago

Recently, Club 8-cycle, one of Ukraine's biggest exclusive PC galleries, was obliterated during the attack of Mariupol. Kotaku spotted insight about the occasion after its proprietor, Dmitry Cherepanov, took to Facebook to share the destiny of Club 8-cycle.
"That is all there is to it, the Mariupol PC historical center is no longer there," he said on March 21st. "All that is left from the assortment that I have been gathering for a very long time are simply parts of recollections on the FB page, site and radio broadcast of the gallery."
Club 8-cycle's assortment included in excess of 500 bits of PC history, with things dating from as far back as the 1950s. Gizmodo visited the exhibition hall in 2018, depicting it at the time as "one of the biggest and coolest assortments" of Soviet-time PCs to be seen as anyplace on the planet. It took Cherepanov over 10 years to gather and reestablish large numbers of the PCs in plain view at Club 8-cycle. What makes the historical center's annihilation considerably more piercing is that it archived a common history between the Ukrainian and Russian individuals.
Fortunately, Cherepanov is alive, yet like numerous occupants of Mariupol, he has lost his home

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