In the intro, Linus mistakenly adds 'Soviet' when expanding the acronym C.S.S.R. which should be simply 'Czechoslovak Socialist Republic'. Additionally, there are comments stating that this keyboard couldn't have been used at Chornobyl. We can't be 100% sure, of course. The photo of the KB in the ruins comes from www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/73ej6l/i_visited_chernobyl_and_the_abandoned_city_of/
No. There was no such thing as Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic. It was the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The first "S" in the acronym stood for Slovak. It can get confusing, and it is admittedly unusual, but that's how this particular acronym worked.
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
Hot take, but I don't really think this is an F up with checking. This honestly seems like a pretty obscure fact that doesn't have any real relevance to the video or anything the Labs had to do with testing
Fun fact: I work at the location that this keyboard was made (sorta). It's now called Nova Zbrojovka and it's a major redevelopment site. Most of the factories and old buildings have been demolished and new office space has been build in their place, or turned into curling halls (very Canadian) or rented as space for events (we had a really cool company party there last year). Really cool to see the area mentioned here.
Brno is one the most legendary gun manufacturers in history, and currently exist as a private company called "CZ" and still make some of the finest guns in the world. They also own Colt.
I absolutely love the depth in which this goes into how the keyboard is working. I really wish manufacturers still provided schematics and diagrams for electronics to aalow them to be fixed easier
Hellos from the Czech republic! Correction: There was no Czechoslovak SOVIET Socialist Republic, there WAS the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was in the Warsaw pact but NOT the Union.
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
@@daniilandreev2775 Is this some kind of elaborate trolling, typing "correct" under every comment correcting the name and then proceeding to write the country's name incorrectly? Kudos for persistence, even though I don't really get the motivation.
This keyboard was really made for typing rather than gaming. Czech is using latin alphabet and QWERTZ keyboard layout. The keyboard with Cyrillic letters was made specially for Soviets.
Looks weird, the layout of the Cyrillic letters is standard, but the Latin letters are placed (more or less) on the corresponding Cyrillic key. The Cyrillic keyboards I've seen (and the one I own) follow the standard layout for both Cyrillic (JTsUKEN) and Latin (QWERTY)
For some unknown for me reason in ussr they were really against using QWERTY or cousins and instead used phonetical layout. It means that Й became J, У -- U, Т -- Т, В -- V and so on. Stupid, inconvenient to use? Yeah. Of course if this is the only keyboard you have ever used you will learn to use it, but it just is stupid to use ЙЦУКЕН for latin, especially since phonetical mapping didn't always work and some letters are in quite random places. @@kaasmeester5903
Fun fact: Tesla company (the OG one) still in business had plant in town Rožnov pod Radhoštěm which was sold and is one owned by Onsemi, an American semiconductor company which couple weeks back announced they picked our country for investment of 2 billion dollars for R&D and production of their chips.
@@weegeequeviucoisas9854 You take the "Br" from bread (except with a hard R) and add "no" (as in the opposite of yes). Somehow Linus added a "u" in there (Bruno). Br-no
Not really. The plant was still in operation until 2000. But I'm also very disappointed with the absurdly misleading title of the video. But yes the plant was still in operation, there is still to this day people working inside the exclusion zone with even tasks like cleaning the streets. There is even a hotel in the area. So yes a keyboard like this could have been used there, but it's not *from* Chernobyl, it's from Brno.
And I am pretty sure that soviets would never used foreign keyboard to operate chernobyl, they didn't trust even their allies, especially occupied Czechs.
5:32 Linus mentions that the information is broken into two half bytes. I don’t think many people know this, there is a term for a half byte. One half of a byte (4 bits) is referred to as a “nibble”. The term came from a play on the words “byte” and “bite”. When you eat, what is smaller than a “bite”? A “nibble”. I think it should be spelled nybble to differentiate it from nibble meaning a small bite. A nybble would be a small byte.
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
@daniilandreev2775 it was a Soviet puppet state....sure, it wasn't officially part of the USSR but it was a communist state with a government that was a puppet of the Soviet union
I guess I was spoiled working on MC AV-8B harriers, where we always had schematics, principles of operation docs, and more. It's hard finding that stuff for commercial (restaurant) equipment I work on now and damn near impossible to find a schematic for any consumer electronics. Wiring and diagrams should come with anything you buy, which could seriously facilitate right-to-fix.
@LinusTechTips 0:11 ČSSR stands for Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and not Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic. Please correct. It's like we would say Canadian State of Murrica.
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
@@daniilandreev2775 How many times did you respond with this exact same information? You have to be aware most of the people watching this and all of the people who made it have no idea why you would care about that right?
@@johnr3663 That's exactly why. They had no idea and now may think Chehoslovakia was a part of soviet union. It's sensitive for us, eastern eauropeans since it reinforces bad stereotypes, especially the ones associating us with the USSR.
I love the style and shape of this keyboard so much! If I could get that as a standard/modern keyboard with those colors and light bulbs I'd gladly pay premium for it!
I don't think it's uncommon at all to name a football team to a tech company, even in western Europe. PSV Eindhoven was named after Philips. The company that used to sell lights, cassette tapes, cd's and of course the mighty Philips CDi.
@@SterkeYerke5555 "The company that used to sell lights, cassette tapes, cd's and of course the mighty Philips CDi." Thank you for explaining, I never heard about some Philips.
No way, Linus Tech Tips getting into the down-and-dirty of singalling protocols and circuit diagrams and how keyboards work under the hood????? I don't know who you hired to help you with this episode but please keep them on!
CSSR stands for "CzechoSlovak Socialist Republic" as it wasn't a Soviet republic. Since the keyboard was made in 1989 and the Chernobyl disaster happened in 1986, the keyboard was not in the affected reactor(s). Pretty misleading tbh.
These keyboards were produced since at least 1986 (judging by the date I've found on a scan of its manual). This specific one might've not been in there but the same model likely did.
Chernobyl was still active for many years after the original disaster they didn't even shut down all the reactors until later on. So it's actually quite possible that this keyboard was used at Chernobyl also not possible just letting you know cause not everybody realizes the reactors weren't all shut down
a bit of clickbait, the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant ran until 2000, saying "Chernobyl" people think of an unlivable exclusion zone that will kill you as soon as you step into it. like Linus said "is this thing radioactive?" no, LTT has run out of decent entry level computer topics, so they have to do this junk.
From what I can tell, even if this model of keyboard was used in Chernobyl, this particular keyboard in their possession was never there. It's like saying, well they used concrete in Chernobyl and my house is made of concrete so therefore I am living in a house from Chernobyl.
One thing can be given to the Soviet era. The appliances, furniture, power tools and often tech was build to damn last, even under serious use wear and tear.
@@Michalosnup Those were common in foreign stuff as well. What wasn't common even back then was service manuals detailing every step of how it works, how to fix it and detailed descriptions of the individual circuits - even schematics for the integrated circuits
@@KofolaDealer Exactly, Im working on Jawa 20 (fichtl/pionýr/motorbike) right now, and Im so glad I have the workshop manual, everything described in detail together with pictures and schematics, awesome
In the post-soviet keyboard community, the enthusiasts going for high-end stuff or weird layouts praise this for the switches and unique keycaps, and both those can be harvested and remade into a normal keyboard with a few hours of work if you come prepared and kinda know what you're doing. There was also the same situation with the "space invaders" keycaps and switches, remade into, I wanna say, 60% style boards, and the donor boards were bought dirt cheap initially.
Ok, i have to say that linus is on to something with this episode. Im 54 and this fells like an old episode of a science show. This is what nerdom is about. I would like to see more episodes like this one. Thank you.
9:04 'The signals are only sent when you like press a key, not when you let go like a modern keyboard' - This is at minimum partially incorrect. Key up and key down events are available on every modern keyboard (With some assumptions that your driver and/or O.S send those events, which most do). A more correct thing to say here is there is a programmable delay between keypresses which is to prevent you from spamming the same character. (Though, if this keyboard requires a dedicated key to be pressed to allow for repeated keys that description doesn't make sense either) Modern keyboards work the same as this keyboard where a keypress closes a circuit and allows current to flow in a specific way so that whatever key is pressed can be detected as specifically that key. Whether a program registers events on key up or key down is another matter and down the software/engineer.
Since they programmed the microcontroller themselves, they should have handled that, yes. But I feel like they were going blind on that one. Huge technical gap. For example, when he plays Doom, he has to press W instead of pressing whatever key is on the right place. Doom is layout-agnostic and works with scancodes. Which means their translation with microcontroller is lacking.
@@Jahus True, I'm mostly hemming on the comment that he made about how modern keyboards work by sending input signals based on when you let go which is incorrect.
Man, I love seeing these 80s Soviet electronics. They're these giant slabs of steel that make no sense nowadays. Soviet computing is a particularly wild field and it's interesting to see what they were trying to make work on the eastern side of the iron curtain. Also, if the opportunity ever arises: make a video on the Polivoks! A rather brutalist looking synthesizer from the 80s with a truly unique sound.
To be fair, USSR perfected rights to repair, it just went downhill from there. Everything came with schematics, because there was no warranties and it was expected that you or you friendly neighborhood engineer will fix it for you with some soldering iron magic. It helped that basically all components were standard.
That was standard even in west back in the day, my grandma had Sony TV made in 1989 and it has fat book with manual and schematics too, it was STANDARD everywhere! It's a shame that today products don't even have proper manuals, you have to find out by yourself.
@@Mark-vr7pt there were warranties and for the expensive things like hi-fi equipment warranties were way better than people have now. Today one year is the norm, two years is getting more and more rare. While in the USSR it could go as far as five years, and three years was a common thing. Like when a preamp board failed in a heavy reel-to-reel recorder, manufacturer sent a guy who replaced the entire PCB at home and left a faulty one on the table. But since that recorder was sold with a full service manual included, it was easy to find out that it was just one failed opamp. So that board was fixed by the owner. And in general service manuals were included so that people would be able to fix stuff that's no longer in production or for any repair shop to be able to fix something they see for the first time. That's the complete opposite to a planned obsolescence. You bought something new? Give your old tech to your kids or your granny. Hard to do nowadays when things don't last that long anymore.
Imagine having more ownership rights including Right to Repair in USSR than in modern USA. Imagine electronics not just come with schematics, but also instructions how tune it and sometimes even how to make a new one(if you can obtain parts, which was hardest part).
I never heard about anything like that as a Czech, maybe it was like that in USSR, but not in Czechoslovakia. This keyboard was obviously meant for export to east when it has cyrillic on it.
Damn, it's cool to see that thing working! I bought a consul 259.13 board off ebay a couple years ago but never got around to working on it. This video is convincing me I should really take a look at it and try to get it working. I was hoping to write a qmk adapter for it to maybe get it working more like a modern keyboard, but I might just end up when the semi-functionality you guys got.
Fun fact, Linus wasn't kidding about Zbrojovka making guns... Ever heard about the Bren? The British assault rifle, that carried WW2? Well... The rifle was designed by Zbrojovka Brno, hence BR and it had been manufactured by Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, hence EN. Bren, Brno-Enfield.
I've noticed this keyboard is using the ЙЦУКЕН / JCUKEN keyboard layout, which is a phonetic keyboard layout for the Russian keyboard layout while the Czechs use a modified QWERTZ keyboard layout. Very interesting...
Why is it interesting? Czech keyboard layout originates from typewriter and when typewriters came in czechoslovakia, it was part of austro-hungarian empire, so the only available typewriters here were with german layout. And german keyboard/typewriter uses QWERTZ. (I prefer variant of czech keyboard layout called "czech programmer" which is basically english with alternative characters on numeric row. Or even better, the layout used in Apple's "ABC Extended")
@@kmartyCZ German layout works fine even for Czech, only thing that is useless is W on such a good place, but we don't use W in Czech, so it should be replaced with something more usefull like Y that is vice versa very often in Czech. English layout doesn't solve anything, you have Y on better place, but vice versa you have Z where Y is located and Z is even more often in Czech so you need it in better place.
@@Pidalin to me, English (US) layout easily solves characters like: @, #, $, \, |, `, ~ (usage of right Alt in CZ layout isn't standardised and doesn't work everywhere). Plus easier access for numbers on TKL keyboards (many people with CZ layout moreless depends on numpad since writing numbers using shift is quite uncomfortable). On the other hand, I don't use much Czech accented characters (czech text without them is still understandable using context*), yet "ABC extended" allows me to write them (ěščřžúůáíýé) plus basically any non-Czech accented characters (but ABC extended has the same issue as CZ layout using right Alt - it isn't standardised). *) There is a few words which are exceptions, i.e. "vyrazim" which can be either "vyrazím"(I'll leave) or "vyrážím"(I'm leaving right now).
Seriously love the deeper technical content! Though it doesn't hurt that I have 40 years in western commercial Nuclear Power Plant maintenance and Operations LOL.
@@cerealport2726 no, I just don't like the names of the cities, distorted by russian Soviet occupation government. Guess you haven't got the point of my message.
Next to Atari 800XL my neighbour had, this was the first keyboard I ever touched 😅 awesome you digged that archeology piece out. Thank you for the memories mate.
i recommend next time using QMK with the pro micro and wiring the pro micro directly with the columns and rows (if there is enough inputs on the chip). you can write custom QMK software that would make it work like a normal keyboard. QMK is a great tool that the community made that has a lot of versatility. really cool video with a cool keyboard.
@LinusTechTips. Please correct the title of the video. The correct spelling is Chornobyl (Ukrainian spelling), not Chernobyl (Russian spelling). Chornobyl is a Ukrainian city, so the correct spelling is Chornobyl. This seems like a small thing, but it is very important for us, Ukrainians, who want nothing to do with the russians.
Correction on the spelling: the correct spelling is "Chornobyl". "Chernobyl" is russian spelling of the Ukrainian town. Let's use the language of the country the places are located in! :D (Otherwise it is colonialism)
My uncle used to work in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as the head of computer department. And he assembled my first PC from decommissioned computer parts. So, I had super nuclear PC powered by Celeron and Riva TNT2.
*Chornobyl. the name you have used is on russian. "Chornobyl" is Ukrainian. it's not that important, but I have noticed, that all "westerns" using the russian variant of naming the Chornobyl
In the intro, Linus mistakenly adds 'Soviet' when expanding the acronym C.S.S.R. which should be simply 'Czechoslovak Socialist Republic'.
Additionally, there are comments stating that this keyboard couldn't have been used at Chornobyl. We can't be 100% sure, of course. The photo of the KB in the ruins comes from www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/73ej6l/i_visited_chernobyl_and_the_abandoned_city_of/
If this is the only mistake in this video, then so-viet.
@@LinusTechTips he did it
@@EATBreallol! 😂
cool
yeah, the soviets tried inserting themselves into our republic since ww2, so we're pretty used to this :D still standing strong tho :D
No. There was no such thing as Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic. It was the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The first "S" in the acronym stood for Slovak. It can get confusing, and it is admittedly unusual, but that's how this particular acronym worked.
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
Hot take, but I don't really think this is an F up with checking. This honestly seems like a pretty obscure fact that doesn't have any real relevance to the video or anything the Labs had to do with testing
People will hook on the most useless information and criticise you for getting it wrong... No one cares about a dead country
@@jason_itykI don't think that the script was written by labs team tho))
@@TheGinGear obscure fact that could be checked by simply googling (not even opening) a Wikipedia page, and to this day, pretty sensitive topic.
Someone needs to make "Strč prst skrz krk" brand and sponsor LTT so he has to say it at least 3 times in segue
New chanel idea: *_Linus Pronunciation Tips_*
Strč prst skrz krk! Strč prst skrz krk! Strč prst skrz krk! Strč prst skrz krk! Strč prst skrz krk! 😅
Český koment raaah🇨🇿🇨🇿🔥🔥🔥
Proč to nenechal přečíst AI např. z google překladače?Či nějakým Čechoslovákem 😂😂😂.
Chtělo by to dbrand XD
Fun fact: I work at the location that this keyboard was made (sorta). It's now called Nova Zbrojovka and it's a major redevelopment site. Most of the factories and old buildings have been demolished and new office space has been build in their place, or turned into curling halls (very Canadian) or rented as space for events (we had a really cool company party there last year).
Really cool to see the area mentioned here.
Funnily enough, in this same location Tesla (this time the American one) is opening a new showroom and service center soon.
nova zorploria
Although Zbrojovka Brno was closed, their parent company, CZ still exists, still makes guns and now owns Colt.
One of the best handguns in the world. Bren rifles are very good too (the new ones).
Based
*Bruno
*Brno@@Dornacgove
And they're some of the best damn guns in the world.
Poslouchat, jak Linus vyslovuje Brno, je velmi zajímavá zkušenost.
ta nejlepší xd
Vskutku xD
Spletl si Brno a Bruno Marse :D
To je pravda
to sa ešte dá
ale tá zbrojovka je uplne dačo iné
i clicked because linus was on the left
Funny
I clicked because his face was eughgh
new meme in every video comment section fr
Same here
Me too
Brno is one the most legendary gun manufacturers in history, and currently exist as a private company called "CZ" and still make some of the finest guns in the world.
They also own Colt.
I absolutely love the depth in which this goes into how the keyboard is working. I really wish manufacturers still provided schematics and diagrams for electronics to aalow them to be fixed easier
Hellos from the Czech republic! Correction: There was no Czechoslovak SOVIET Socialist Republic, there WAS the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was in the Warsaw pact but NOT the Union.
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
Thanks for the Fact Czech!
Ahoj! Love you czechs
@@daniilandreev2775 Is this some kind of elaborate trolling, typing "correct" under every comment correcting the name and then proceeding to write the country's name incorrectly? Kudos for persistence, even though I don't really get the motivation.
I am Czech too
This keyboard was really made for typing rather than gaming. Czech is using latin alphabet and QWERTZ keyboard layout. The keyboard with Cyrillic letters was made specially for Soviets.
Looks weird, the layout of the Cyrillic letters is standard, but the Latin letters are placed (more or less) on the corresponding Cyrillic key. The Cyrillic keyboards I've seen (and the one I own) follow the standard layout for both Cyrillic (JTsUKEN) and Latin (QWERTY)
Really? The keyboard made for soviet industrial plants isn't good for gaming? No shit, sherlock.
@@twizz420 no need for that
@@ryanolsen294I think there is, actually.
For some unknown for me reason in ussr they were really against using QWERTY or cousins and instead used phonetical layout. It means that Й became J, У -- U, Т -- Т, В -- V and so on. Stupid, inconvenient to use? Yeah. Of course if this is the only keyboard you have ever used you will learn to use it, but it just is stupid to use ЙЦУКЕН for latin, especially since phonetical mapping didn't always work and some letters are in quite random places. @@kaasmeester5903
Fun fact: Tesla company (the OG one) still in business had plant in town Rožnov pod Radhoštěm which was sold and is one owned by Onsemi, an American semiconductor company which couple weeks back announced they picked our country for investment of 2 billion dollars for R&D and production of their chips.
Sadly the quality today varies. It's your classic China. But they do make some nice media steaming boxes with android TV.
Wait I thought the Tesla brand was sold to someone and it's now used to sell Chinese stuff as Tesla Electronics... Such a shame
@@JanHurych Their vacuum cleaners are pretty good. Dunno how much horsepower the Tesla I have has, but it mops and vacuums the floors quite well.
@@JanHurychold Tesla electronics are awesome. I have some electronics that still work, not a single part replaced
@@EmulatorNoob Commie era stuff was reliable. Low tech, old when it came out, but lasted forever.
These personalized videos are getting more and more on point 🙂 Mom used to work in Zbrojovka Brno until ‘89.
A dream came true, Linus talking about Czechoslovak Tesla.
yes vubec jsem to necekal
Jenom z nás dělá druhý Rusko. Během přípravy videa se nikdo moc na wiki nedíval.
@@tomn.9987 v té době to zas tak daleko od sebe nemělo
I swear somebody intentionally told Linus the worst way to pronounce Zbrojovka Brno just to troll him.
FR!
Yeah...
How are you even supposed to pronounce such vowel-defficient words?
Realne
@@weegeequeviucoisas9854 You take the "Br" from bread (except with a hard R) and add "no" (as in the opposite of yes). Somehow Linus added a "u" in there (Bruno). Br-no
Brno is a town in the Czech Republic, towards its border with Austria.
Brno is not a real place, it's a classic Czech joke.
@@philipcooper8297 Is it like Bielefeld? (Refering to the Bielefeld Conspiracy)
And I'm pretty sure it's not pronounced "Bruno" like they did in the video.
@@vanCaldenborgh I like to believe every country has their own Bielefeld conspiracy. It builds community.
@@philipcooper8297 nope cesky krumlov doesnt exist, brno does but people wish it didnt
Thanks for czeching (pun intended) this obscure piece of tech from our small country. I had no idea something like this even existed.
@EndeavourLOL-_- Czech is't funny nation, they greet u with Ahoj!, but they don't have access to sea.
To whomever did the animations for the electronic schematics in this video, I see you and I appreciate you
If this keyboard was built in 1989, it has absolutely zero chance of being deployed at Chernobyl.
Not really.
The plant was still in operation until 2000.
But I'm also very disappointed with the absurdly misleading title of the video.
But yes the plant was still in operation, there is still to this day people working inside the exclusion zone with even tasks like cleaning the streets.
There is even a hotel in the area.
So yes a keyboard like this could have been used there, but it's not *from* Chernobyl, it's from Brno.
Not necessarily - the other three reactors were used well into the 90s.
And I am pretty sure that soviets would never used foreign keyboard to operate chernobyl, they didn't trust even their allies, especially occupied Czechs.
5:32 Linus mentions that the information is broken into two half bytes. I don’t think many people know this, there is a term for a half byte. One half of a byte (4 bits) is referred to as a “nibble”. The term came from a play on the words “byte” and “bite”. When you eat, what is smaller than a “bite”? A “nibble”. I think it should be spelled nybble to differentiate it from nibble meaning a small bite. A nybble would be a small byte.
i thought it was a meme, but its real, kinda funny
4 bits = a nibble, 8 bits = a byte, 8 bytes = a word.
Our teacher mentioned that once in university and apart from that I had never heard anyone use that word
Wait was this a fun fact without a "Fun fact:" prefix?
it actually is sometimes spelled nybble, but I mean it's so uncommonly used, why not start now? I definitely prefer nybble.
ČSSR does not stand for "Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic" but for "Czecho Slovak Socialist Republic"
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
Those counties were essentially puppet states that if they misbehaved, soviet army would march in@@daniilandreev2775
Potato tomato
@daniilandreev2775 it was a Soviet puppet state....sure, it wasn't officially part of the USSR but it was a communist state with a government that was a puppet of the Soviet union
@@orange3203 uhh no
czech repunblic mentioned lessgoo
Ne asi. Konečně Česko a Slovesko u LTT. A ještě k tomu TEchnika SLAboproudá, parádní.
@@petsox6977 czechc for the wiin
je to tak xd ez win
Po druhý být zmíněn v LTT videu. A dokonce i Slovensko poprvý, kdyz zmiňují Československo. ❤
Niiiice 🎉
9:13 Linus... "I am old" is not an excuse to be bad at Tetris. Tetris is older than you.
7:15 Soviet Mouse:
"You will lose."
"If he dies, he dies."
"I must break you."
I so want to hear Linus say řeřicha after struggling with Zbrojovka Brno
Yeah or our Slovak famous phrase: “Guľôčka v jamôčke”
@@Nameisnotimportant And y'all should try to pronounce "Tři sta třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes tři sta třiatřicet stříbrných střech."
@@ziixe_ Yeah certainly
@@ziixe_lots of 3's!
Strč prst skrz krk
I guess I was spoiled working on MC AV-8B harriers, where we always had schematics, principles of operation docs, and more. It's hard finding that stuff for commercial (restaurant) equipment I work on now and damn near impossible to find a schematic for any consumer electronics. Wiring and diagrams should come with anything you buy, which could seriously facilitate right-to-fix.
@LinusTechTips 0:11 ČSSR stands for Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and not Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic. Please correct. It's like we would say Canadian State of Murrica.
Up
Coorrect! Chehoslovakia was never a Soviet republic from USSR, only eastern blok country in the sphere of influence in the USSR, Iron Curtain don't mean always soviet republic.
@@daniilandreev2775 How many times did you respond with this exact same information? You have to be aware most of the people watching this and all of the people who made it have no idea why you would care about that right?
+1 for Canada State
@@johnr3663 That's exactly why. They had no idea and now may think Chehoslovakia was a part of soviet union. It's sensitive for us, eastern eauropeans since it reinforces bad stereotypes, especially the ones associating us with the USSR.
I love the style and shape of this keyboard so much! If I could get that as a standard/modern keyboard with those colors and light bulbs I'd gladly pay premium for it!
2:48 savage 💀
The editor did a great job removing the crackling sound from the keyboard
...isn't that sound from a Geiger counter?
Adderall is to thank for everything in this video
_3.6 Roentgen, not great not terrible..._
@@jablue4329 yeah
I love how in depth this went, love the new lab kid, would love to see more like this.
It's so funny to me as Czech person how Linus is so confused over how to pronounce Zbrojovka and that Brno's football team is named after it
I don't think it's uncommon at all to name a football team to a tech company, even in western Europe. PSV Eindhoven was named after Philips. The company that used to sell lights, cassette tapes, cd's and of course the mighty Philips CDi.
@@SterkeYerke5555 "The company that used to sell lights, cassette tapes, cd's and of course the mighty Philips CDi." Thank you for explaining, I never heard about some Philips.
@@SterkeYerke5555 I thought they just made screwdrivers
@@jamescelliers3195 Noooooooo, you're ALL wrong! The screwdrivers come from an American company called Phillips (with two L's).
@@SterkeYerke5555 it was a joke
This is not a HALL EFFECT keyboard. Hall effect sensors of that time period were huge. It's a reed switch keyboard, a common technique.
@@Sx107music
Not really, this if fr contactless hall effect keyboard. Google it.
10:33 I feel sorry for the NPC bots who were killed by that keyboard. Such an embarrassing way to go.
Linus trying to pronounce Zbrojovka made me chuckle, anyway, greetigns from Czech Republic
so much energy in the keyboard you don't even have to plug it in
2:07 when i read ''Gesundheit!'' i laughed my ass off for like a solid minute.. this will be a greate video.
Ein Volk ein Reich ein Komentarbereich
Haben die einen deutschen Editor oder warum ist das auf deutsch hä bin gerade super verwirrt lol
@@SumriseHD english speakers just like to use it instead of bless you, i guess to add spice
Petition for more schematics included in LTT videos. Love seeing the circuitry.
No way, Linus Tech Tips getting into the down-and-dirty of singalling protocols and circuit diagrams and how keyboards work under the hood?????
I don't know who you hired to help you with this episode but please keep them on!
Really love these kinds of deep dives onto obscure hardware. Great work team!
It’s our keyboard
@@TsarBomba69420 we all know the joke
CSSR stands for "CzechoSlovak Socialist Republic" as it wasn't a Soviet republic.
Since the keyboard was made in 1989 and the Chernobyl disaster happened in 1986, the keyboard was not in the affected reactor(s).
Pretty misleading tbh.
They could've used the keyboard there after the disaster. The last reactor went offline in 2000.
These keyboards were produced since at least 1986 (judging by the date I've found on a scan of its manual). This specific one might've not been in there but the same model likely did.
Chernobyl was still active for many years after the original disaster they didn't even shut down all the reactors until later on. So it's actually quite possible that this keyboard was used at Chernobyl also not possible just letting you know cause not everybody realizes the reactors weren't all shut down
a bit of clickbait, the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant ran until 2000, saying "Chernobyl" people think of an unlivable exclusion zone that will kill you as soon as you step into it. like Linus said "is this thing radioactive?" no, LTT has run out of decent entry level computer topics, so they have to do this junk.
From what I can tell, even if this model of keyboard was used in Chernobyl, this particular keyboard in their possession was never there. It's like saying, well they used concrete in Chernobyl and my house is made of concrete so therefore I am living in a house from Chernobyl.
I can see this being a great mod project, reusing and enhancing the hardware, and updating to newer control and communication chips and software.
Linus' boyish joy at discovering standard oscilloscope features is heartwarming.
linus is gonna get a glow up... literally.
Linus on the left
Keyboard on the right.
Linus is putting his money where his mouth is
The oscilloscope data was so interesting.
Impressive work refurbishing and actually making use of such an old keyboard. Really enjoyed the dig into its inner workings.
Major props to the major artist in the latest videos for making the info so lively and easy to understand
Would love to see more vids like this!
Linus make a soviet setup complete with a soviet era monitor and pc.
One thing can be given to the Soviet era. The appliances, furniture, power tools and often tech was build to damn last, even under serious use wear and tear.
Also schematics always included
@@Michalosnup Those were common in foreign stuff as well. What wasn't common even back then was service manuals detailing every step of how it works, how to fix it and detailed descriptions of the individual circuits - even schematics for the integrated circuits
@@KofolaDealer Exactly, Im working on Jawa 20 (fichtl/pionýr/motorbike) right now, and Im so glad I have the workshop manual, everything described in detail together with pictures and schematics, awesome
@@tsartomato Yes really, and I can say that honestly even for me despising what that regime did to my country.
WM66s will outlive humanity
In the post-soviet keyboard community, the enthusiasts going for high-end stuff or weird layouts praise this for the switches and unique keycaps, and both those can be harvested and remade into a normal keyboard with a few hours of work if you come prepared and kinda know what you're doing.
There was also the same situation with the "space invaders" keycaps and switches, remade into, I wanna say, 60% style boards, and the donor boards were bought dirt cheap initially.
Junior tester did a fantastic job presenting, but too emotionless & prompter reading BUT! A fantastic time on screen! Can’t wait to see him again!!
Damm you ok bro
7:50 the Chernobyl workers playing games at work:
they didn't hear the explosion because of headphones and yelling russian kids in countrer strike 😀
Brno mentioned 🔥🔥🗣️🍺🇨🇿🗣️!RAAHHH!!🇨🇿🔥🍺 WHAT THE HELL IS A FAMILY FRIENDLY TOWN SQUARE!?!?🍺🗣️🔥🇨🇿♥️🗣️🍺🇨🇿🦅
that guy explaining it , did a very great job !!!! Any chance you show him more often ? ^^
Ok, i have to say that linus is on to something with this episode. Im 54 and this fells like an old episode of a science show. This is what nerdom is about. I would like to see more episodes like this one. Thank you.
Zbrojovka is still around and creates very fine weaponry like tz CZ Shadow pistol, love shooting that thing.
0:28 holy shit the attention to detail making that title move with the background
I have never seen so many Slovak and Czech people in here, this is amazing 😂😂
9:04 'The signals are only sent when you like press a key, not when you let go like a modern keyboard' - This is at minimum partially incorrect. Key up and key down events are available on every modern keyboard (With some assumptions that your driver and/or O.S send those events, which most do). A more correct thing to say here is there is a programmable delay between keypresses which is to prevent you from spamming the same character. (Though, if this keyboard requires a dedicated key to be pressed to allow for repeated keys that description doesn't make sense either)
Modern keyboards work the same as this keyboard where a keypress closes a circuit and allows current to flow in a specific way so that whatever key is pressed can be detected as specifically that key. Whether a program registers events on key up or key down is another matter and down the software/engineer.
Since they programmed the microcontroller themselves, they should have handled that, yes. But I feel like they were going blind on that one. Huge technical gap. For example, when he plays Doom, he has to press W instead of pressing whatever key is on the right place. Doom is layout-agnostic and works with scancodes. Which means their translation with microcontroller is lacking.
@@Jahus True, I'm mostly hemming on the comment that he made about how modern keyboards work by sending input signals based on when you let go which is incorrect.
Man, I love seeing these 80s Soviet electronics. They're these giant slabs of steel that make no sense nowadays. Soviet computing is a particularly wild field and it's interesting to see what they were trying to make work on the eastern side of the iron curtain.
Also, if the opportunity ever arises: make a video on the Polivoks! A rather brutalist looking synthesizer from the 80s with a truly unique sound.
I like this type of raw electronics engineering, since I do that work for a living.
Dusty. 0:59
Ariel was cool, trolling linus like that and I liked his energy
To be fair, USSR perfected rights to repair, it just went downhill from there. Everything came with schematics, because there was no warranties and it was expected that you or you friendly neighborhood engineer will fix it for you with some soldering iron magic.
It helped that basically all components were standard.
ah the delights of a planned economy.
That was standard even in west back in the day, my grandma had Sony TV made in 1989 and it has fat book with manual and schematics too, it was STANDARD everywhere! It's a shame that today products don't even have proper manuals, you have to find out by yourself.
@@Mark-vr7pt there were warranties and for the expensive things like hi-fi equipment warranties were way better than people have now. Today one year is the norm, two years is getting more and more rare. While in the USSR it could go as far as five years, and three years was a common thing. Like when a preamp board failed in a heavy reel-to-reel recorder, manufacturer sent a guy who replaced the entire PCB at home and left a faulty one on the table. But since that recorder was sold with a full service manual included, it was easy to find out that it was just one failed opamp. So that board was fixed by the owner. And in general service manuals were included so that people would be able to fix stuff that's no longer in production or for any repair shop to be able to fix something they see for the first time. That's the complete opposite to a planned obsolescence. You bought something new? Give your old tech to your kids or your granny. Hard to do nowadays when things don't last that long anymore.
As a regular Usagi Electric viewer it's funny for me how big of a deal LTT makes about the conversion of the keyboard input data :D
The sponsor segue was nuclear
Imagine having more ownership rights including Right to Repair in USSR than in modern USA. Imagine electronics not just come with schematics, but also instructions how tune it and sometimes even how to make a new one(if you can obtain parts, which was hardest part).
So true. Not surprising at all though really. A system run by the State vs a system run by corporations.
This is also partly a matter of “what era is this from?” DIY was huge back in the 80s and arguably into the 90s…yes, even in the US.
I never heard about anything like that as a Czech, maybe it was like that in USSR, but not in Czechoslovakia. This keyboard was obviously meant for export to east when it has cyrillic on it.
with all respect, but its Chornobyl 😭
Womp womp
Damn, it's cool to see that thing working! I bought a consul 259.13 board off ebay a couple years ago but never got around to working on it. This video is convincing me I should really take a look at it and try to get it working. I was hoping to write a qmk adapter for it to maybe get it working more like a modern keyboard, but I might just end up when the semi-functionality you guys got.
i love this kid, excited to see more of him
as a czech person, it's very cute how excelently Linus fumbled literally everything in the ''zbrojovka brno'' :DD
Funny how linus tries to speak czech : D
fallout must be feeling real now
Fun fact, Linus wasn't kidding about Zbrojovka making guns... Ever heard about the Bren? The British assault rifle, that carried WW2? Well... The rifle was designed by Zbrojovka Brno, hence BR and it had been manufactured by Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, hence EN. Bren, Brno-Enfield.
11:01 This is exactly like me and my bro playing on the commadore 64 in the early 90's 🤣
I've noticed this keyboard is using the ЙЦУКЕН / JCUKEN keyboard layout, which is a phonetic keyboard layout for the Russian keyboard layout while the Czechs use a modified QWERTZ keyboard layout. Very interesting...
Why is it interesting? Czech keyboard layout originates from typewriter and when typewriters came in czechoslovakia, it was part of austro-hungarian empire, so the only available typewriters here were with german layout. And german keyboard/typewriter uses QWERTZ.
(I prefer variant of czech keyboard layout called "czech programmer" which is basically english with alternative characters on numeric row. Or even better, the layout used in Apple's "ABC Extended")
Not russian but Cyrillic.
It was obviously for export, it doesn't even have Czech printed on it.
@@kmartyCZ German layout works fine even for Czech, only thing that is useless is W on such a good place, but we don't use W in Czech, so it should be replaced with something more usefull like Y that is vice versa very often in Czech. English layout doesn't solve anything, you have Y on better place, but vice versa you have Z where Y is located and Z is even more often in Czech so you need it in better place.
@@Pidalin to me, English (US) layout easily solves characters like: @, #, $, \, |, `, ~ (usage of right Alt in CZ layout isn't standardised and doesn't work everywhere). Plus easier access for numbers on TKL keyboards (many people with CZ layout moreless depends on numpad since writing numbers using shift is quite uncomfortable).
On the other hand, I don't use much Czech accented characters (czech text without them is still understandable using context*), yet "ABC extended" allows me to write them (ěščřžúůáíýé) plus basically any non-Czech accented characters (but ABC extended has the same issue as CZ layout using right Alt - it isn't standardised).
*) There is a few words which are exceptions, i.e. "vyrazim" which can be either "vyrazím"(I'll leave) or "vyrážím"(I'm leaving right now).
2:07 lmfao
It's not Chernobyl, the correct transliteration is Chornobyl
The correct transliteration is ty - dolboeb
@@denkt how is going in the country of terrorists who bomb children hospitals?
Seriously love the deeper technical content! Though it doesn't hurt that I have 40 years in western commercial Nuclear Power Plant maintenance and Operations LOL.
That's a beautiful sounding keyboard. I cannot explain it but it's satisfying sounding.
It’s still better than the Magic Keyboard
😅
never heard of that one before
@@nathan22211Your reply is very original.
We in czech republic say “zlatý český ručičky” which means “handy czech hands”
i cant get over the way he says Brno as BRUNO like where did get that U from
My friend from Chernobyl can type all the keys on this keyboard in one go just with his two hands.
only 2 hands, must be a tourist.
@@cerealport2726 good one lol
Except it is Chornobyl, so your message is bs.
@@real_andrii no sense of humour, eh...?
@@cerealport2726 no, I just don't like the names of the cities, distorted by russian Soviet occupation government.
Guess you haven't got the point of my message.
Next to Atari 800XL my neighbour had, this was the first keyboard I ever touched 😅 awesome you digged that archeology piece out. Thank you for the memories mate.
i recommend next time using QMK with the pro micro and wiring the pro micro directly with the columns and rows (if there is enough inputs on the chip). you can write custom QMK software that would make it work like a normal keyboard. QMK is a great tool that the community made that has a lot of versatility. really cool video with a cool keyboard.
@LinusTechTips.
Please correct the title of the video. The correct spelling is Chornobyl (Ukrainian spelling), not Chernobyl (Russian spelling).
Chornobyl is a Ukrainian city, so the correct spelling is Chornobyl.
This seems like a small thing, but it is very important for us, Ukrainians, who want nothing to do with the russians.
Підтверджую, здається дрібниця, але неприємно
No one cares, go to front
it was called chernobyl at the time. not doing your revisionist history
Linus, величезне дякую тобі за те, що ти прислухався до мого коментаря ❤
Українці ніколи не забудуть твого вчинку 💙💛
Need more Ariel for sure
how many tips it takes to get to gaming, seems like people are stuck in the build mode, not gaming at all
That keyboard looks like it could win a fight with Linus.
I was not ready for the Riley MANSCAPED jump-scare at the end of the video
Chornobyl, not Chernobyl
Chernobyl, not Chornobyl
Why? In Ukrainian it is Chornobyl@@denkt
@@techexplorer7484names are not always kept in the original language.
@@TheHellis okay, imagine if we called Japanese people Yaponzi? Or Germans Nemzi?
@@techexplorer7484 so Germans are original name?
Not Deutschland?
You just said we should say Chornobyl and now you say Germans as in Germany?
Its Chornobyl, not Chernobyl
Correction on the spelling: the correct spelling is "Chornobyl". "Chernobyl" is russian spelling of the Ukrainian town. Let's use the language of the country the places are located in! :D (Otherwise it is colonialism)
Powerhouse retro gear is making the rounds lately. It's like a wave, and I'm here for it!
My uncle used to work in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as the head of computer department. And he assembled my first PC from decommissioned computer parts. So, I had super nuclear PC powered by Celeron and Riva TNT2.
And I still have this PC
*Chornobyl. the name you have used is on russian. "Chornobyl" is Ukrainian. it's not that important, but I have noticed, that all "westerns" using the russian variant of naming the Chornobyl