Leningrad-1, one of the Soviet clones of ZX Spectrum
Posted by Paulus-05@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 6 comments
Not sure if I ever will find time to repair it…
Posted by Paulus-05@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 6 comments
Not sure if I ever will find time to repair it…
Imperial_Honker@reddit
These people who built these are the silent heros of the computing history. As often as the original developers are praised, they have to have their fair share of recognition as they have built these things with much restriction and choice of components. The components that they have to work with were not cost decisions but rather survival decisions of the product.
Bipogram@reddit
What sn Absolute Unit of a regulator heatsink - and why such a loopily-large capacitor?
50V???
LuigiThirty-@reddit
Presumably these were used in classrooms, in the Eastern Bloc they would have low-voltage 42V sockets rather than standard mains voltage for safety reasons.
Bipogram@reddit
Today I learned.
That poor 7805-clone no doubt needed every bit of that heatsink, if it was dropping down to 5V.
Ready_Rain_2646@reddit
Probably their comrade ordered "do it, now" and then this born.
Ill_Engineering1522@reddit
Most of these Soviet Spectrum clones were made by engineering students in cramped garages, with bosses of the then-nascent Russian mafia standing over them.