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The Soviet InterNyet

Benjamin Peters · Aeon · 2016

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EstablishedIn 1962 Glushkov proposed a three-tier computer network (one central centre in Moscow, up to about 200 mid-level centres in major cities, up to 20,000 local terminals at production sites) for accounting, planning and governing the Soviet economy, including electronic payments instead of paper money.EstablishedAccording to Peters, Glushkov's OGAS design linked one central computer centre in Moscow to as many as 200 mid-level centres in major cities, which in turn would connect up to 20,000 terminals at key production sites.EstablishedKitov's 1959 'Red Book' letter proposing civilian use of military computers for planning was intercepted by his superiors, and he was stripped of his Party membership for a year and dismissed from the military.