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Russian Sinclair Clones?

GolfareninswedenGolfareninsweden
edited November 2009 in Hardware
Hello!

I wounder if there is a good site with a "complete" list with all russian/"eastern Europe" sinclair clones with pictures? Besides Planet Sinclair.

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/clones/clones.htm

Cheers from Sweden

Christan
Post edited by Golfareninsweden on
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Comments

  • StuBruiseStuBruise
    edited March 2007
    I don't know about "complete" but this site has a nice collection:

    http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/f_easteurope.html?easteurope_ussr.html&speccy

    ...including what most surely be the best-named Speccy clone ever.
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited March 2007
    Thanks for the link!
  • PilsenerPilsener
    edited March 2007
    StuBruise wrote: »
    ...including what most surely be the best-named Speccy clone ever.

    Sure appeals to the male population if they're into "playing games"

    They even had the nerve to name some machines "ZX SPectrum". I guess a copyright-lawsuit through the iron curtain was not possible anyway.

    But I find it strange that the keys of these computers had English labels, and not russian.
  • Black_CatBlack_Cat
    edited October 2009
    Golfareninsweden wrote: »
    I wounder if there is a good site with a "complete" list with all russian/"eastern Europe" sinclair clones with pictures? Besides Planet Sinclair.

    http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/clones/clones.htm
    Russian (exUSSR) clones
    Golfareninsweden wrote: »
    Besides Planet Sinclair.

    http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/clones/clones.htm
    :) laughed ..
    In the USSR, at a time when the average monthly income was just 250 roubles a month, a Spectrum cost 40,000 roubles - equivalent to 13 years' wages.
    In the Saint Petersburg (Leningrad exUSSR), at a time (1989) when the average monthly income was just ~350 roubles a month, a Spectrum cost 700 roubles (Leningrad-1) - equivalent to 2 monthly wages. In the peripheral areas of the USSR, at a time (1989) when the average monthly income was just 233 roubles a month, a Spectrum cost ~1400 roubles (Leningrad-1) - equivalent to 6 monthly wages. :)
  • rokoroko
    edited October 2009
    Thanks, Black_Cat.
  • gasmangasman
    edited October 2009
    I think you're talking about different things there - as I understood it, 40,000 roubles was the stated figure for an original, legal Spectrum, which is exactly the reason why the much cheaper (and illegal) Spectrum clones such as the Leningrad-1 were introduced.

    I'm not sure whether to believe the 40,000 rouble figure, but it does bring up a wonderful image of a rubber-key Spectrum being some kind of precious artifact among the Russian aristocracy, like a 1980s Faberg? egg :-)
  • Black_CatBlack_Cat
    edited November 2009
    gasman wrote: »
    I think you're talking about different things there - as I understood it, 40,000 roubles was the stated figure for an original, legal Spectrum, which is exactly the reason why the much cheaper (and illegal) Spectrum clones such as the Leningrad-1 were introduced.
    During the Cold War, high technology exports to the communist bloc were strictly controlled by Western countries, out of fear that Western technology would be used or reverse-engineered for military purposes.
    Clones ZX Spectrum in the Soviet Union produced and sold legally and in full accordance with the laws of the country. Original ZX Spectrum in the USSR is not delivered because of the embargo Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls.
  • Mad FritzMad Fritz
    edited November 2009
    I paid 6000,- East German Mark for my first (original) 16K Spectrum in 1985, which was roughly a years salary at that time.
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