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...Originally Posted by ST
(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.