Author Topic: Robik - ZX Spectrum clone (Read 3852 times)

Parak · « **on:** Fri, 18 February 2011, 18:58:10 »

AHHHHH MOTHERLAND

Little known fact: In soviet russia, the keys laser y... what's a hercon?

nathanscribe · « **Reply #1 on:** Fri, 18 February 2011, 19:29:57 »

Quote from: ripster;297517

I'm still working on what a Kempston Interface is

Ye gods man, you've never lived.

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000582

They were a standard joystick protocol for many years. All I can say is "Daley Thompson's Decathlon" and "broken joystick". It still affects me in adulthood.

MisterJohnnyT · « **Reply #2 on:** Fri, 18 February 2011, 21:40:52 »

Man, everything about that Robik listing is a riot! The description, the pictures, the power adapter...

petyou · « **Reply #3 on:** Fri, 18 February 2011, 23:45:15 »

I thought a hercon is what turned New Orleans into a disaster area.

Parak · « **Reply #4 on:** Sat, 19 February 2011, 02:06:27 »

Findecanor · « **Reply #5 on:** Sat, 19 February 2011, 03:31:16 »

The auction quotes Wikipedia verbatim except that they left this bit out:

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The Robik came in four versions with only minor changes for Russian Internationalization and localization. The hardware remained unchanged except that cheaper and cheaper parts was used for each version, but the 4th version was new with a single IC. This version didn't sell well because by then it was mostly hardware folks that bought the Robik and this design didn't allow you to fiddle around with the hardware.

I find the last sentence a bit funny ..

keyb_gr · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 19 February 2011, 18:32:07 »

If you've got a shortage of resources, stuff better be repairable, as it has to last quite a while. Under these conditions it makes sense to supply service docs. Only a wasteful society can afford planned obsolescence.

Incidentally, without people wisening up about the latter, this forum might not even be here. After all, one motivation for getting a mechanical board is durability. There's enough cheap (and more worryingly, expensive) plastic trash out there that just isn't holding up.

Superfluous Parentheses · « **Reply #7 on:** Sat, 19 February 2011, 18:52:59 »

That design is way cool. Far cooler than I'd expect given its origin. AND it looks like it won't hang or reset whenever someone closes a door in the next room, unlike the real ZX.

Ham · « **Reply #8 on:** Mon, 02 May 2011, 17:20:58 »

Quote from: Parak;297513

... what's a hercon?

It is transcription of russian word "геркон" which is actually a Reed switch. So it had reed switch keys.

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