<story><title>Socialist Romania Computer Chips</title><url>https://www.cpushack.com/2022/09/29/socialist-romania-computer-chips/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theaeolist</author><text>&amp;quot;The consumption of electricity in everyday life was limited (it was forbidden to use a refrigerator during the winter, and the use of a vacuum cleaner was banned all year round), hot water was supplied to apartments twice a week,&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is all false. Source: I was there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gls2ro</author><text>Maybe you were living in a big city like Bucharest, Timisoara ...&lt;p&gt;I was there before 1989 and grew in the small town in a house. Not a village, but a small town.&lt;p&gt;We had electricity only a couple of hours per day.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know of any specific rule against refrigerator but it was not useful to buy one as you cannot connect it to anything.&lt;p&gt;The main source of light during winter was the fire and some kind of liquid gas (I don&amp;#x27;t know exacly what was that) that we used with a gas lamp.&lt;p&gt;The same goes for kitchen: most of the cooking was done using the stove or using some gas tanks that were limited - I think one per family per month or I am not sure. But the gas tank was a precious possession there.&lt;p&gt;The same was true for bread or any other food that was produced by the state. There were rations of how much we can buy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Socialist Romania Computer Chips</title><url>https://www.cpushack.com/2022/09/29/socialist-romania-computer-chips/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theaeolist</author><text>&amp;quot;The consumption of electricity in everyday life was limited (it was forbidden to use a refrigerator during the winter, and the use of a vacuum cleaner was banned all year round), hot water was supplied to apartments twice a week,&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is all false. Source: I was there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nottorp</author><text>&amp;gt; This is all false. Source: I was there.&lt;p&gt;Same. Pretty sure we vacuumed regularly and never unplugged the refrigerator.&lt;p&gt;If you were in a state heated apartment building after 1980, the heating was limited to non existent though. And there may have been a hot water schedule. More like twice per day not twice per week though.</text></comment>