Recently I quite occasionally found some sites dedicated to BK-0010 -- the first (and, I'm afraid, last) mass-produced soviet home computer. Oh, the feel of nostalgia. Do you remember the golden time, when if somebody was in need of certain software, he did not go to Gorbushka to buy a pirated CD, but just wrote it himelf? Some technical data for BK-0010: CPU: K1801VM1, analog of DEC LSI-11; RAM: 32 Kb (normally 16 Kb usable RAM + 16 Kb reserved for videobuffer) ROM: either FOCAL interpreter + MSTD (monitor/debugger), or BASIC Video: 256 * 256 * 4 colors (color mode) or 512 * 256 (B/W mode) Sound: software-controlled squeaker External storage: tape recorder Some screenshots: LOGO interpreter at work Cool multicolor demo. Well, Spectrum clones had using only Western CPU 'Z-80A', and design wasn`t 1:1 copy from original ZX, I rather say what Soviet-made Spectrums was 'ZX-compatible' (many models was not 100% compatible, lots of games didn`t work on it )Well, I didn't say what they were 100% clones -- they were not. For example, all of them seem to have something absolutely different from original Spectrum 'ULA' (simple microchip responsible for generating video, controlling keyboard and periferials) -- so they produces SECAM-compatible video output instead of PAL one, as original Spectrum did. But, anyway, they were almost 100% Spectrum-compatibles, and it was a key to success.

GREAT thread! It is certainly bringing back the memories.

Igraj The Sniper 2. Dobio si zadatak snajeprista. Potraži neprijatelje i neutraliziraj ih. Drop a.COD.BIN.BKD.IMG.ROM file here, or zipped one. BK0010 + Basic ROM, Reset restart (F12), Reload clear all, BK0010 + Focal ROM, BK0010+FDD.

I used to play with LOGO for hours on Apple II back in the computer lab days (mid-late 80s). My first computer was an Atari XE, probably around 1987, then I got an Apple IIGS in 1989. First PC was in 1992, and I quickly learned how to build them. I haven't been 'into' PC hardware for about five months and already I'm completely lost with the new stuff. It just changes so fast. All my old PC buddies make fun of me because now the only computer I use is my Apple iBook G4.

But it is really, really neat to learn that the Soviet Union produced home computers, as Western propaganda would have us believing you still had computers the size of a Ural truck in the 1980s! It reminds of the Soviet joke, 'Our watches are the fastest, our computers the biggest!' Anyhow, really cool thread, guys. Just over three weeks until I arrive in Moscow!