The bizarre world of ZX Spectrum clones, from Russia, Eastern Europe, South America and Asia. Apparently there were dozens of the beasties, some straightforward knockoffs and some (particularly in the USSR) with bizarrely improvised keyboards and some specced up to run MS-DOS and such. (via the Horn)

Posted by: cos | http://polydistortion.net/monkey/ | Mon Jun 24 00:36:57 2002

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/clones/opd.htm

we had one of these OPD things (as well as two Spectrums, of course). ah, the 80's...

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Mon Jun 24 05:13:42 2002

the English OPD, or its Australian rebadging, the Telecom Computerphone?

Posted by: cos | http://polydistortion.net/monkey/ | Tue Jun 25 00:13:44 2002

Well, my father worked for ICL (the English-based company that did the box with Sinclair), so it could've been either. I've got a vague feeling it was the Telecom-badged one, though. We even (eventually) got a colour screen for it.

My first days of BBSing were on this thing (300bps, or 1200/75), too.

Want to say something? Do so here.

Note to spammers: This comment system applies the rel=nofollow attribute to the poster's URL and all links. Posting links to this page will not improve their search engine rankings.

Display name:
URL:(optional)
To prove that you are not a bot, please enter the text in the image on the right in the field below it.

Your Comment:

Remember my details.

Please keep comments on topic and to the point. Inappropriate comments may be deleted.

Note that markup is stripped from comments; URLs will be automatically converted into links.