Modern retro style vacuum cleaner, looks very nice..
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/nmz/cyclone7l/
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/nmz/cyclone7l/
Vacuum Cleaner by Nizhny Novgorod Machine Building Plant.
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COOL!
Mad Russian
Designed the prettiest new canister vacuum in exsistance. Great colours too.
Designed the prettiest new canister vacuum in exsistance. Great colours too.
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
Also it seems this vacuum cleaner is a modernization of a much older design, rather than a totally new design.
Ian
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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
Ross
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.
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Hi Ian. Thank you for the interesting pictures.
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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
East Germany DDR in 1975. I have been back since and it sure has changed.
Ross
The Robotron buildings still there 
(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
(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
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:
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:
Well of course, something as big as Robotron never goes away ;]
(check ebay.de for robotron stuff 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)
(check ebay.de for robotron stuff
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)
