Quote Originally Posted by ST
hmm, and what about ZX-Spectrum clones? Where was LOTS of them in 80-th, factory-made and home-made. They was usually named БК too
Correct, but they were *clones*, not original designs. There were no much original ideas, IMHO. BTW, is there any Spectrum clone with name starting from БК? Never heard of one...

(Well, strictly speaking, it wasn't *only* soviet-made HC. There was, for example, the huge family of very primitive HC's based on "Radio-86" with Intel-8080 analog ("Mikrosha"/"Irisha"/etc...) These seem to be "original" too -- but not especially interesting, with very poor graphics (actually, pseudographics), and a very limited supply of software. Briefly, they are no match for BK.)

Finally, neither "Agat" (poor Apple-II clone, one of the ugliest PC's I seen in my life ) and "Korvet" (MSX clone) were original designs.